thebrainscoop:typhlonectes:One Man’s Mission to Save a Magnificent Molluskby Sarah McRae As Hurrican
thebrainscoop:typhlonectes:One Man’s Mission to Save a Magnificent Molluskby Sarah McRae As Hurricane Fran blasted North Carolina’s coast in 1996, one man braved the flood waters to save a small, yet magnificent snail from washing away. Andy Wood rushed out into the storm to collect as many Magnificent Ramshorn Snail (Planorbella magnifica) from the refuge he had built in his backyard—the last place on earth the rare snail was known to exist at the time. Wood made it back indoors with 25 snails and dumped them into his son’s bedroom aquarium. Only 12 survived the event, leaving a handful of specimens to rebuild the species’ last population…(read more: USFWS - Endangered Species)photos: Andy Wood, Coastal Plain Conservation Group and USFWSI’M NOT CRYING -- source link