Snail Facts

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SNAIL FACT: Snails, like all other gastropods, cannot hear.

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snact (snail fact): The majority of snails are marine snails, but there are also a bunch of freshwater snails and land snails!

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Snail Fact: The Ampullariidae Family of snails each have a gill and a lung, which allows them to be amphibious!

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Snail Fact! Over time, some snail shells have evolved to fight off parasitic nematoads. This is the only known exoskeleton that has been co-opted as an immune system!

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Snail Fact: Most freshwater snails eat algae, but some eat detritus instead, and others filter feed!

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🐌 Fact: Cowry shells are sometimes called the 'despicable currency' due to their use in the slave trade.

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snact (snail fact): The Ampullariidae Family of snails each have a gill and a lung, which allows them to be amphibious!

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🐌🐌🐌: Shakespeare once said that only love was 'more soft and sensible than the tender horns of cockled snails'!

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Snail Fact! Professor Walter Garstang wrote a 400 word poem titled 'Ballad of the Veliger or how the Gastropod got its Twist' to express his ideas about the reasons for torsion in snail development!

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SNAIL FACT: Snails are an important part of the calcium cycle!

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🐌🐌🐌: Some scientists believe that the variety of types of snail shells is influenced by sexual selection! 😉

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🐌🐌🐌: One family of snails has evolved a shell that is comprised of two hinged parts like a clam. Sometimes this family is called the bivalved gastropods.

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Snail Fact: Shakespeare once said that only love was 'more soft and sensible than the tender horns of cockled snails'!

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Snail Fact: Lunella coreensis snails in Japan grow algae on their shells to keep themselves cool under the heat of the sun! ☀️

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snact (snail fact): Some scientists believe that the variety of types of snail shells is influenced by sexual selection! 😉

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🐌 Fact: In the past, large cowry shells have been used in Europe to aid sock repair!

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🐌 Fact: Snail tongues (radulas) are covered in thousands of tiny teeth.

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🐌 Fact: Gigantopenta chessoia lives on the Antarctic ocean floor. When it reaches a certain length, its esophageal gland expands and fills with bacteria that convert compounds from hydrothermal vents into energy for the snail, so it doesn't have to eat anymore!

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SNAIL FACT: Jan Swammerdam, a Dutch naturalist in the seventeenth century, was one of the first people to make drawings of a snail anatomy based on a dissection!

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🐌 Fact: Cowry shells have been used for divination in India.

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snact (snail fact): The Mesoamerican god Quetzalcoatl was believed to have created life using a conch shell. As a result, many religious rulers wore necklaces with conch shells on them.