{"id":43174,"date":"2025-08-04T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/43174\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:00:10","slug":"mission-under-way-to-save-worlds-most-beautiful-snails-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/43174\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission under way to save &#8216;world&#8217;s most beautiful&#8217; snails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The most endangered of those is Polymita sulphurosa, which is lime green with blue flame patterns around its coils and bright orange and yellow bands across its shell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But all the Polymita species are strikingly bright and colourful, which is an evolutionary mystery in itself.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;One of the reasons I&#8217;m interested in these snails is because they&#8217;re so beautiful,&#8221; explained evolutionary geneticist and mollusc expert Prof Angus Davison from the University of Nottingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The irony, he said, is that this is the reason the snails are so threatened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Their beauty attracts people who collect and trade shells. So the very thing that makes them different and interesting to me as a scientist is, unfortunately, what&#8217;s endangering them as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most endangered of those is Polymita sulphurosa, which is lime green with blue flame patterns around its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-43174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}