How Australian scientists brought Norfolk Island's thumbnail-sized snails back from the brink of extinction

Exclusive: After a slow start, the Campbell's keeled glass-snails are now breeding like rabbits - or maybe like snails - with plans to reintroduce them to the islandGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastFirst there's a bulge on the right-hand side of the snail's neck and then slowly - because everything in the snail world happens slowly - a fully formed baby snail emerges, shell and all.In a quarantined captive breeding facility at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, adult Campbell's keeled glass-snails popped out more than 20 babies last week. Continue reading...