Mass extinction

Since 1990, the St. Louis Zoo has played an instrumental role in bringing Tahitian snails back from the brink of extinction.

Jordan Teisher and Matthew Albrecht are leading efforts at the Missouri Botanical Garden to bring back plants that have been extinct in the wild for more than 100 years.

In between all the news updates about the COVID-19 pandemic and protests against police brutality, a totally different story jumped out from the St. Louis…