For the magnificent ramshorn (Planorbella magnifica), a fresh-water snail species native to southeastern North Carolina, efforts to secure protection under the federal Endangered Species Act have ...

Federal wildlife officials are seeking endangered species status for a freshwater mollusk — the “magnificent ramshorn snail” — that’s indigenous to Southeastern North Carolina but hasn’t been seen in ...

A small shed-like structure built in the longleaf pine forest a stone’s throw from Andy Wood’s Hampstead home is one of the last places on Earth that the magnificent ramshorn snail can be found. For ...

MOBILE, Ala. -- The telltale masses of pink eggs appearing around the water's edge mean Amazonian apple snails have emerged from their winter hibernation in the muck at the bottom of Langan Pond and ...

A Magnificent Ramshorn snail at biologist Andy Wood’s snail refuge in Hampstead. Wood took the Magnificent Ramshorn into captivity in the early 1990s. He has maintained a population of the snails, ...

Scientists want the magnificent ramshorn snail, unique to southeastern North Carolina, to be declared an endangered species and two ponds named its critical habitat. The protections could help the ...