Author: Julián Monge Nájera, Ecologist and Photographer Isolated from the world for 80 million years, New Zealand’s giant carnivorous snails never developed resistance to desiccation and lack jaws. Some are in danger of extinction, and desperate measures like spraying poison on their enemies have not worked. New Zealand giant snails of the genus Powelliphanta come from a very ancient group, present on the Gondwana supercontinent when the first dinosaurs appeared, but the fact that this particular genus is found only in New Zealand suggests that it evolved less than 80 million years ago, when the archipelago was separated from adjacent lands. For […]
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