Beige- and cream-colored stripes cover the snail’s spiraled shell, which protects the snail from predators and prevents it from drying out. Partula snails went extinct in the wild because of ano ...

Goats, rodents and habitat loss threatened the snails on Deserta Grande Island, so the mollusks were reintroduced on a ...

The moved backfired as the carnivorous predator preferred the Partula tree snails, leaving them exctinct on ... loss for Polynesian culture, as the shells were used in cultural artefacts More ...

Snails carry a spiral shell banded in chestnut brown with yellow ... slugs are more destructive leaving flower foliage, ...