Conservation department scientist Kath Walker said hard shells made it difficult to ... temperature gauge froze 800 Mount Augustus snails to death inside their climate-controlled containers.

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.

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DOC scientist Kath Walker said hard shells made it difficult to mate ... when a faulty temperature gauge froze 800 Mount Augustus snails to death inside their climate-controlled containers.

Conservation department scientist Kath Walker said hard shells made it difficult to mate -- so some ... when a faulty temperature gauge froze 800 Mount Augustus snails to death inside their ...

Conservation department scientist Kath Walker said hard shells made it difficult to ... temperature gauge froze 800 Mount Augustus snails to death inside their climate-controlled containers.