Potamopyrgus antipodarum, commonly known as the New Zealand mud snail, has emerged as a paradigm for invasive species research. Its global proliferation is underpinned by a suite of opportunistic ...

Environmentalists are urging federal officials to save a pair of Northwest species that you’ve probably never heard of. If you’ve seen one of them, you might have mistaken it for a pebble on the ...

Nepal, Nov. 6 -- Water species such as fish, ghongi (freshwater snails), crabs and sutahi (mussels) are becoming increasingly rare in the fields, rivers, streams, and wetlands of the region. Baliram ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeking Endangered Species Act protections for the ashy pebblesnail and shortface ...

Researchers have named two newly discovered freshwater snail species from Brazil after characters from The Lord of the Rings. In their research paper, the authors explain the name Idiopyrgus eowynae, ...

A survey recently conducted on Prince Edward Island turned up a type of freshwater snail that experts say has never before been identified in the Maritimes. Nature P.E.I. said in a news release that ...