One famous snail’s death highlights the plight faced by diverse Hawaiian snails, of which there were once hundreds of species ...

Rats keep getting into paradise. And when they discover a taste for escargot, it’s an infernal problem for native populations. At a study site high in the mountains on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, ...

David Sischo is working to save some of the rarest endangered species on the planet, kāhuli — Hawaii’s native tree snails. The snails play a crucial role in the ecosystem, having evolved over millions ...

The sole specimen of Achatinella apexfulva, a grayish-white tree snail once abundant on the island of Oahu is a sad symbol of just how ill-equipped we humans really are in the face of the loss of a ...