One of the world’s biggest sea snails at risk of extinction - National Geographic UK

A century of unregulated harvesting for its gigantic shell has left the horse conch far more vulnerable than scientists realised.

An uncommon conch While the study focused on Florida horse conchs, the species, Triplofusus giganteusis, lives from North Carolina down the Atlantic coast, around the Gulf, and south to Mexicos Yuca… [+3378 chars]

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