Chester, United Kingdom, Feb 7, 2026 (AFP) - UK zoo says tiny snail 'back from brink' of extinction

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A minuscule snail once thought to have disappeared has been saved from the edge of extinction, a British zoo said Saturday. The greater Bermuda land snail had not been spotted for years until a cluster of shells was caught slithering through an alleyway in the capital Hamilton in 2014. Some were flown to Chester Zoo, where experts spent years building up the population before they released thousands back into the wild in 2019. Unique to Bermuda,......

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