A small shed-like structure built in the longleaf pine forest a stone’s throw from Andy Wood’s Hampstead home is one of the last places on Earth that the magnificent ramshorn snail can be found. For ...

Scientists want the magnificent ramshorn snail, unique to southeastern North Carolina, to be declared an endangered species and two ponds named its critical habitat. The protections could help the ...

This snail hasn't been seen in the wild in over 20 years. Biologists are working to bring it back. The Magnificent Ramshorn snail is only known to come from one part of NC but hasn't been seen in the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working to save a local species — the magnificent ramshorn aquatic snail — from extinction. Regulations from the Endangered Species Act now protect the snail from ...

WILMINGTON, N.C.— In response to a petition and lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today issued a final rule protecting North Carolina’s magnificent ...

The endangered magnificent ramshorn snail is living in the wild in North Carolina again for the first time in 20 years following the reintroduction of 2,860 of the slow-moving gastropods into a pond.

Endangered Magnificent Ramshorn snails, after being in captivity for two decades were reintroduced to the wild on November 16, reports ABC 13. Measuring approximately 1.5 inches in length when fully ...

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission announced on Friday, Nov. 17, that a federally endangered snail species was reintroduced to the wild in Brunswick ...

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas — Destroying an invading horde of giant, nocturnal snails may sound like the plot of a bad science-fiction movie, but it could be San Antonio’s best hope to increase its access to ...

A Magnificent Ramshorn snail at biologist Andy Wood’s snail refuge in Hampstead. Wood took the Magnificent Ramshorn into captivity in the early 1990s. He has maintained a population of the snails, ...

Federal wildlife officials are seeking endangered species status for a freshwater mollusk — the “magnificent ramshorn snail” — that’s indigenous to Southeastern North Carolina but hasn’t been seen in ...