Got a cough? A tape worm? Historic ads were full of tall claims, cures

With bold claims and little regulation, ads from the late 1800s offer a humorous glimpse into how medicine — and marketing — once worked.
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Once Thought This Snail Was Extinct. But a Surprising Discovery and Decade-Long Conservation Effort Revived the Species

In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago—had gone extinct. While later searches turned up some snails that had ...
People

Rare Snail Once Declared Extinct Is Saved from Obliteration After Landmark Conservation Effort

"It's every conservationist's dream to help save a whole species – and that's exactly what we've done," said Tamas Papp of the Chester Zoo Chester Zoo A rare greater Bermuda snail, once believed to be ...
Hawaii News Now

Island snail populations race toward extinction

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Island land snails are facing a serious threat of extinction, according to a new study from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Researchers found extinction rates for island ...
Forbes

Meet The Snail That Thrives Where Almost Nothing Else Can. Hint: It Has Armor Made Of Iron

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. In hydrothermal vent fields, a small snail evolved an iron-reinforced shell. Here’s how it ...
The Conversation

Ketamine is giving more young people bladder problems – an expert explains

Heba Ghazal does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
The New York Times

To Feel at Home in a New Place, It Helps to Think Like a Snail

When I moved abroad, I found the slimy mollusks everywhere. Then they taught me how to adapt. By Gabe Bullard On the first morning without rain after I moved to Switzerland, I woke up, still ...
Mongabay

From ‘extinct’ to growing, a rare snail returns to the wild in Australia

Rarely do species presumed extinct reappear with renewed hope for a better future. But researchers in Australia not only discovered a wild population of Campbell’s keeled glass-snail on Australia’s ...
Corpus Christi Caller-Times

This ocean snail creates its own raft of bubbles

This past week’s strandline delivered a spectacular mix of open-ocean drifters, man o’ wars, blue buttons, by-the-wind sailors and — tucked among them — one of my favorite finds: the purple storm ...
Mercury News

Meet the ‘distinctive’ moon snail lurking along the California coast

With a shell that looks like a full moon, egg cases that look like broken pottery on the seafloor, a unique predatory style and even a feature comparable belly button, the moon snail that frequents La ...