🐌💨 Snails may feel super slow… but did you know the average snail crawls just 0.03 mph?
At that pace, it’d take nearly a day to cross your backyard! 🌱
Read more fun #SnailFacts here:
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#Nature #FunFact #SlowAndSteady

A New Zealand snail named Ned has a rare left-coiled shell - only 1 in 40,000 snails are like him. But it means he can’t mate with normal snails, leaving him loveless unless another “lefty” is found.

#TheLolgic #SnailFacts #WeirdNature

Most people don't know this because we can't see the dark side of the moon, but it is actually home to the celestial snail. #snailfacts

!! I will store this under SnailFacts!!

🐌 Critter Fact of the Day #21
Snails have thousands of tiny teeth on their tongues. It’s called a radula, and it works like a microscopic cheese grater. #snailfacts #invertlove #exoticpets

If you want additional snailfacts, snailscience, or snailevangelism, happy to supply. I study fossil and living marine snail evolution/ecology, and how they respond to changing environments, including climate change. Turritellids, the most abundant post-K-Pg macrofossil are my main critter.

More snailfacts: Snail anatomy

Sharks might rule the ocean, but—believe it or not—some snails are out here being just as lethal in the forest. Yep, certain snails, like the one in this GIF, are carnivores, snacking on earthworms, bugs, and even other snails. Who knew, right?
#NatureIsWild #UnexpectedPredators #SnailFacts

Happy national snail 🐌 day! Most of my favorite snailfacts are already a part of the snails in short series I did with @franzanth.bsky.social, so I’ll repost them here.

If anyone has any marine snail (extant or paleo) questions I’ll do my best to try to answer them too🦑🐌⚒️🧪