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 ...

Federal wildlife officials are seeking endangered species status for a freshwater mollusk — the “magnificent ramshorn snail” — that’s indigenous to Southeastern North Carolina but hasn’t been seen in ...

North Carolina wildlife officials on Thursday released 2,000 endangered snails back into the wild. The Magnificent Ramshorn snails were released into a pond in Brunswick County. According to the North ...

A small shed-like structure built in the longleaf pine forest a stone’s throw from Andy Wood’s Hampstead home is one of the last places on Earth that the magnificent ramshorn snail can be found. For ...

It’s the first time the snail, which appears to be the Big-eared Radix (Radix auricularia), has ever been recorded in the ...

A small shed-like structure built in the longleaf pine forest a stone’s throw from Andy Wood’s Hampstead home is one of the last places on Earth that the magnificent ramshorn snail can be found. For ...

Don’t let the title of this column fool you. Despite the title of apple snails, I am not sharing the latest escargot recipe offered up at a fancy restaurant here in The Last Green Valley (TGLV). Today ...

A freshwater snail common in ponds across Europe can adjust its pigmentation in response to certain environmental stressors, new research suggests. Radix balthica, spanning less than a half-inch (0.8 ...

Scientists want the magnificent ramshorn snail, unique to southeastern North Carolina, to be declared an endangered species and two ponds named its critical habitat. The protections could help the ...

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, ...