A year after Australia fires, hundreds of species may face extinction
March 9, 2021 at 6:00 am When Isabel Hyman heads out in coming weeks to the wilds of northern New South Wales, she’s worried about what she won’t find. Fifteen years ago, the malacologist — or mollusk scientist — with the Australian Museum made an incredible discovery among the limestone outcrops there: a tiny, 3-millimeter-long snail, with a ribbed, dark golden-brown shell, that was new to science. Subsequently named after her husband, Hugh Palethorpe, Palethorpe’s pinwheel snail ( Rhophodon palethorpei) “is only known from a single location, at the Kunderang Brook limestone out...
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