The rapid extinction of the world’s slowest creatures
It was 2007 — the year of “Spider-Man 3” starring Toby McGuire, Obama’s first election campaign, and the launch of the first iPhone. On a small island in French Polynesia, the last tree snail of the species Partula cytherea quietly, and most likely violently, met its demise. Reports from the International Union for Conservation of […]
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