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.

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

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!

🐌 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!

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

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

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

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

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

🐌🐌🐌: 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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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