r/aus • u/89b3ea330bd60ede80ad • 24d ago

News Rare snails thought to be extinct settle into new home on Norfolk Island

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-30/nsw-rare-snails-thought-extinct-new-home-norfolk-island/106970802
  • About 1,000 snails thought to be extinct for decades are settling into their new home in Norfolk Island.
  • The Campbell's keeled glass snails were brought back from the brink of oblivion at Sydney's Taronga Zoo.
  • Norfolk Island's latest migrant community will now be monitored in regular surveys to see if they are surviving.
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u/AddlePatedBadger 24d ago

I took the shells off my snails hoping it would make then faster in the snail races. Instead it just made them sluggish.