The magnificent ramshorn snail is found only in the Lower Cape Fear River basin. It was recently returned to the wild for the first time in decades. A near-extinct NC snail is back in the wild.

The magnificent ramshorn snail is found only in the Lower Cape Fear River basin. It was recently returned to the wild for the first time in decades.

This snail hasn't been seen in the wild in over 20 years. Biologists are working to bring it back. The Magnificent Ramshorn snail is only known to come from one part of NC but hasn't been seen in ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working to save a local species — the magnificent ramshorn aquatic snail — from extinction. Regulations from the Endangered Species Act now protect the ...

The proposed dredging and expansion of the Port of Wilmington will exacerbate these threats and destroy more of the ramshorn’s habitat. Additional reintroduction sites are needed outside of the ...

The “magnificent ramshorn snail” — larger and rarer than the common ramshorn, of course — hasn’t been seen in the wild in decades.

The endangered magnificent ramshorn snail is living in the wild in North Carolina again for the first time in 20 years following the reintroduction of 2,860 of the slow-moving gastropods into a pond.

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 ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working to save a local species — the magnificent ramshorn aquatic snail — from extinction. Regulations from the Endangered Species Act now protect the ...

The ramshorn snail is an air-breathing, aquatic species of snail. Where is it found? The ramshorn snail is found in only four sites in the lower Cape Fear River Basin in Southeastern North Carolina.