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How Australian scientists brought Norfolk Island’s thumbnail-sized snails back from the brink of extinction
First there’s a bulge on the right-hand side of the snail’s neck and then slowly – because everything in the snail world happens slowly – a fully formed baby snail emerges, shell and all. In a quarantined captive breeding facility at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo, …