UK zoo says tiny snail 'back from brink' of extinction
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Chester, United Kingdom: A minuscule snail once thought to have disappeared has been saved from the edge of extinction, a British zoo said Saturday....
Chester, United Kingdom: A minuscule snail once thought to have disappeared has been saved from the edge of extinction, a British zoo said Saturday.
The greater Bermuda land snail had not been spotted for years until a cluster of shells was caught slithering through an alleyway in the capital Hamilton in 2014.
Some were flown to Chester Zoo, where experts spent years building up the population before they released thousands back into the wild in 2019.
Unique to Bermuda, this type of snail traces its lineage back over a million years -- a relic of the island's ancient ecosystem.
Now "we can officially say the species is back from the brink", said Chester Zoo in a statement sent to AFP.
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