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Why researchers are releasing over 1,300 small snails on a remote island

The Desertas Island is a place where time seems to stand still. It rises dramatically from the Atlantic Ocean like a jagged fortress in the Portuguese Madeira archipelago. However, the Desertas is an ...
The Washington Post

Most birds avoid hurricanes. This species chases them, scientists say.

A rare seabird that lives on an uninhabited Atlantic Ocean island has an unusual response to hurricanes, new research shows: They fly toward the storms, rather than away from them. It is unusual ...
Sky

These pea-sized snails were considered extinct for 100 years - now they're being released into the wild

A species of tiny snail has been brought back from the brink of extinction. The Desertas Island land snails were believed to have disappeared altogether for 100 years, but experts have managed to ...
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Breeding Cycle and Nestling Growth of Bulwer's Petrel on the Desertas Islands, Portugal

https://doi.org/10.2307/1521906 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1521906 Copy URL The Bulwer's Petrel (Bulweria bulwerii) colony on Deserta Grande, Madeira ...
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Pea-sized snails thought to be extinct 100 years ago sent to re-populate island

More than 1,300 pea-sized snails, once believed to have gone extinct after no sightings were recorded for more than a century, have been released into the wild. Two species of the Desertas Island land ...
BBC

Snails: Chester Zoo and Bristol Zoological Sociey boost numbers of 'extinct' tiny snails

The snail sits on top on a 5p to show how tiny they are! Two tiny snail species have been rediscovered after it was thought they were extinct. The Desertas Island land snails hadn't been recorded for ...
BBC

Rare baby Desertas wolf spiders hatch at Bristol Zoo

More than 1,000 Desertas wolf spiderlings have hatched at Bristol Zoo - the first time the rare spider has been bred in captivity. The species is only found in a valley on one of the Desertas islands, ...