“We don’t have any hyper-specialised snail-eating mammals in the world at the moment, so they represent a branch of mammalian evolution that seems to not exist anymore,” Dr Churchill said. “But in the ...

The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail were once shrouded in mystery. Now footage of the snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured for the first time, ...

The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail were once shrouded in mystery. Now footage of the snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured for the first time, ...

The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail were once shrouded in mystery. Now footage of the snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured for the first time, ...

The Powelliphanta augusta snail was undergoing a routine weight check when an egg appeared from its neck Lisa Flanagan/New Zealand Department of Conservation via AP A rare New Zealand snail had ...

The long-lived snails can grow to the size of a golf ball, their eggs can take more than a year to hatch. A rare New Zealand snail has been filmed for the first time squeezing an egg from its neck ...

Sydney: A rare New Zealand snail has been filmed for the first time squeezing an egg from its neck, delighting scientists trying to save the critically endangered meat-eating mollusc. Threatened ...

The miracle of life can be majestic at times. Other times, it’s an incredibly rare snail in New Zealand having kids out of its neck hole. In a first, officials at New Zealand’s Department of ...

The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail were once shrouded in mystery. Now footage of the snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured for the first time, ...

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