Daily Mail7d
Snail's pace! Roadworks to make accident blackspot safer are held up for nearly a decade because study into endangered molluscs is still not finished
But the work has been held up by the presence of Little Whirlpool Ramshorn snails, aquatic gastropods which have shells just a few millimetres in diameter that are among the most endangered small ...
Purdue Exponent5d
Road building project delayed for decade because of rare snails
A multi-million-dollar road safety project has been held up for nearly a decade by a study into the protection of rare snails ...
Daily Express4d
Outrage as £274m UK dual carriageway held up for 10 years because of snails
The plans to dual the A47 Acle Straight in Norfolk were put on hold in 2015 because of the Little Whirlpool Ramshorn Snail, a tiny creature measuring just one-fifth of an inch across. These ...
EDP 247d
A47 Acle Straight snail study results to be revealed at last
They have expressed shock at the "extraordinary" amount of time it is taking ecologists to investigate the population of Little Whirlpool Ramshorn snails which live on the surrounding marshes.
The Daily Telegraph7d
Study of endangered snails slows pace of A47 road project for almost a decade
The research – initially planned to take just three years – is examining whether it is possible to safely relocate the little whirlpool ramshorn snails which live in marshes surrounding a ...
Center for Biological Diversity10mon
Endangered Species Protections Sought for Critically Endangered Snails, Clam in Oregon, California
Like other freshwater species facing extinction, the snails and clam have small habitats with highly restricted ranges ... All three species live in the Upper Klamath Lake. The Great Basin ramshorn ...