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New Zealand mud snails in a running stream in central Pa. (Edward Levri/ Pennsylvania State University-Altoona)

Biologists led by the University of Iowa have discovered an invasive species of tiny snails in streams in central Pennsylvania using a special technique called eDNA. The New Zealand mud snail has spread to the Eastern Seaboard after arriving in the western United States decades ago.

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