The Galapagos snail — once collected by Charles Darwin — and South Africa's riverine rabbit are among 12,259 known plants and animal species facing extinction, according to the 2003 Red List of ...
A snail may have been saved from the “edge of extinction” after more than 1,300 born in a world-first breeding programme were released into the wild. The pea-sized Desertas Island land snail was once ...