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‘Tiny’ creature went extinct in wild decades ago. Now there’s a ‘momentous’ birth

Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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The Partula snails nearly went extinct in the 1980s and early 1990s when predatory snail species were introduced to French Polynesia .

The snails feed on decaying plant tissue and fungi, experts said.

Zoos across the U.K. and U.S. worked for years to preserve and breed the snails.

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