What is the Partula snail? Also known as the Polynesian tree snail or niho tree snail, the Partula snail (Partula nodosa) is actually one of several snail species of the genus—all of which are in ...

Partula snails were extinct in the wild, but in April, scientists released over 5,000 of them back into their native habitat in French Polynesia, Mongabay reports. The Partula snail is a tiny land ...

Scientists Shell-ebrate After Bringing Snail Back From Extinction. A rare species of Polynesian tree snail once believed to be extinct in the wild has been officially reclassified as critically ...

Captain Cook first mentioned them. They became one of the most important proofs of evolution in action. But that was before they became the victims of a man-made conservation disaster. Partula, a ...

"We've been breeding in the states for 20 years," Pete Mohan, the Akron Zoo's director of animal operations. "They're not hard to care for. You have to be careful with them, but it's not a stress on ...

This adult Partula tohiveana snail doesn't have a dot of UV-reflective paint on its shell, meaning it was born in the wild. Paul Pearce-Kelly In French Polynesia, tiny snails are making a big comeback ...

19:06, Mon, Sep 26, 2016 Updated: 19:26, Mon, Sep 26, 2016 Most species of Partula snails became extinct in their native French Polynesia due to predation by the much larger carnivorous rosy wolf ...

Thanks to tiny computers mounted on the backs of snail shells in Tahiti, scientists have discovered how one species survived extinction while others fell prey to an invasive carnivorous snail, ...

Credit: ZSL/Cover Images A rare species of Polynesian tree snail once believed to be extinct in the wild has been officially reclassified as critically endangered, following a decades-long ...