If you have a garden, you’ll find them hiding under bricks and behind ... a shell gets in the way when you’re trying to squeeze through gaps. Snails and slugs sense the world very differently to us.

are not a garden pest, and help build up the soil. “Recovery of this snail shows that if we want to save species from extinction, we have to protect the places they live,” said Miller. “Saving the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today formally changed the status of the Morro shoulderband snail from endangered to threatened, citing Endangered Species Act protections that have helped spur ...