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The tragic love life of Jeremy, the world's loneliest snail

In 2016, a retired scientist in London discovered a garden snail with a shell that coiled counterclockwise - the opposite of ...
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Meet the Painted Snail With Shells as Unique as Fingerprints

The snail’s shell diameter averages about 22 to 30 millimeters (.87 to 1.18 inches). Each snail’s shell has a unique combination of stripes and colors, so no two are exactly alike. These snails eat ...

To Feel at Home in a New Place, It Helps to Think Like a Snail

It was huge. Its light brown shell stood taller than the tip of my shoe. Its yellowish-green body stretched about an inch ...
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This Tiny Snail Is Nature’s Most Underrated Predator

Snails seem like slow, unassuming animals until you meet the cone snail. This mollusk packs a punch as one of the most predatory and venomous creatures crawling the seafloor. This YouTube video shows ...

Lonely George the tree snail dies, and a species goes extinct

One famous snail’s death highlights the plight faced by diverse Hawaiian snails, of which there were once hundreds of species ...