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, ...
The mollusc Leptogyra bujnitzkii appeared in a biological collection in Russia thanks to the legendary Arctic drift that began on 23 October 1937. Three icebreaking steamers - Georgiy Sedov, Malygin ...
You might find the identical cousin of this Irish banded wood snail in the forests of faraway France. Despite living thousands of kilometres apart, their stripy shells and DNA are so similar that they ...
Isolated, related snail populations in Ireland and the Pyrenees suggests that humans carried the creatures north by sea. Dina Fine Maron reports The critters in question are a variety of banded wood ...