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"When I started in 1980, our land snail collection was about 10,000 specimens. When I finished in 2006, it was over 200,000," he said. "People sent us snails from all sorts of places, once they ...

Imagine going to the dentist with this set of teeth! These are teeth located on a snail’s “tongue,” or radula, also called a rasper, which is constantly licking the ground to scrape up and transport ...

Gary the Snail first cut his teeth into the acting scene at a young age, scoring the role of "Gary the Snail" on popular children's TV show, Spongebob Squarepants. As an untrained actor he couldn ...

He said it was made from the glands of marine snail and about 12,000 were needed to obtain less than 2g of pigment. "The collection of the snails and processing of the glands would have been very ...

Bhils are one of the largest tribal groups in India and have a tradition of foraging and hunting which includes a collection of snails from rivers and ponds. For them, Ghonghi is a source of ...

More than 200 snails have been rescued from their fate ... They were added to his not-so-sluggish collection, which has taken over two of the three bedrooms at his family home in Witham, Essex.

A team of Japanese and Thai researchers has found four species of luminous land snails, only the second such discovery after one came to light in 1943. Scientists from Chubu University in Kasugai ...