HONOLULU (KHON2) – On July 23, Bishop Museum scientists officially named a new species of living native Hawaiian land snail. The snail’s shell is less than 5 millimeters (2/10 of an inch) tall when ...

David Sischo is working to save some of the rarest endangered species on the planet, kāhuli — Hawaii’s native tree snails. The snails play a crucial role in the ecosystem, having evolved over millions ...

Florida officials identified an invasive population of giant African land snails in the state in 2011. Under towering palms and tangled mangroves, coil-shelled creatures slowly crawl across damp ...

UINTAH COUNTY, Utah — People moving into Utah to enjoy all the state has to offer is nothing new, but a new snail species has joined the crowd. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources says the new ...

Auriculella gagneorum, a small candy-striped snail from Oahu's Waianae Mountains, represents the first new species of a living Hawaiian land snail described in 60 years. Scientists have described a ...

More than a million species are at risk of extinction, many within decades, because of human actions. Among them? The kāhuli, Hawaii's native... The small team caring for some of the last of Hawaii's ...

The species appears to be an invasive snail known as the big-eared radix, which is native to Europe and Asia. It was found in ...

When Hurricane Douglas came barreling toward Oahu in 2020, David Sischo quickly packed up and drove to higher ground. But he wasn't evacuating his family. He was evacuating snails. Sischo works with ...

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Utah’s long list of native snails got a little longer this year after a state biologist stumbled upon what turned out to be a boreal top snail while conducting mollusk surveys last spring in the Uinta ...

If you want to forget your troubles and tune out the state of the world, look no further than an online snail-appreciation group like Pet Snails and Slugs, which has ten thousand members from all over ...