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 ...

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 ...

WILMINGTON, N.C.— In response to a petition and lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today issued a final rule protecting North Carolina’s magnificent ...

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 ...

The endangered magnificent ramshorn snail is living in the wild in North Carolina again for the first time in 20 years following the reintroduction of 2,860 of the slow-moving gastropods into a pond.

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 ...

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 ...

Snails like the magnificent ramshorn eat plant matter in water, digesting it and then pooping it out, Wood said. Their refuse is then available for plankton, which feed small fishes and gradually work ...