Just plain amazing

I think I missed this story when it happened.   For about four decades, scientists and Bermudans thought that the greater Bermuda land snail had gone extinct.  Nobody could find one.

Then they found a group of them living in a little back alley in the capital city of Hamilton.  Apparently they were isolated enough in that location to avoid predators (mainly other imported snails that never should have been imported) which had predated the rest of the greater Bermudan snails out of existence.

Here's an article about this amazing rediscovery in 2014.

'Extinct' Bermuda snail is found in city alleyway

Now, since they found them, scientists/conservationists have bred them back from their minimum numbers to have enough to put onto a small Bermudan islet, and hopefully reproduce into an even bigger population out there.  The islet should be free of the predators that nearly destroyed the greater Bermuda land snail.

Bermudan land snail that was once feared to be extinct until a tiny group of survivors was found in an alleyway is 'back from the dead' thanks to a breeding programme

I was hoping there would be a picture of the alley where they were found.  There is one.

Oh, you want to see what the snail looks like?