Conservation rangers took a video of an endangered, captive snail laying a large egg, revealing insight into the creature’s reproductive process ...

A ranger who has been caring for the snails for the last 12 years said it's the first time she's seen one lay an egg.

which they can store until they each fertilize the sperm they’ve received to create eggs,” Flanagan explained.The snails take an extraordinary eight years to reach sexual maturity, and once ...

The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail were once shrouded in mystery. Now, footage of the ...

How do snails mate and lay eggs? “Powelliphanta have solved this by having an opening (a genital pore) on the right side of their body just below their head so that the snail only needs to peek ...

Each snail takes eight years to reach sexual maturity, after which it lays about five eggs a year. The egg can take more than a year to hatch. "Some of our captive snails are between 25 and 30 ...

Kath Walker, a DOC senior science advisor, said in the release that the snails lay eggs through their neck because to their hard shell gets in the way of mating anywhere else on their body.

The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail were once shrouded in mystery. Now footage of the snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured for the first time, ...

Each snail takes eight years to reach sexual maturity, after which it lays about five eggs a year. The egg can take more than a year to hatch. “Some of our captive snails are between 25 and 30 ...