The land snail Satsuma caliginosa sheds its "tail" (or foot) to escape a snake predator. Here, the snail is regenerating its tail. Adult S. caliginosa have shells with armored openings. The hole from ...
The scaly-foot snail, or volcano snail, possesses something unique among gastropods: a coat of protective armor covering its foot, made from hundreds of overlapping iron-infused scales. It fortifies ...
Better to lose your foot than your life, at least if you're a snail. In a move reminiscent of certain lizards that can voluntarily detach their tails, young Satsuma caliginosa snails self-amputate ...
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Snails: Nature’s Surprisingly Stretchy Wonders
Snails are slow-going, but some serious muscles (and an extra foot) are hidden underneath the large shells they carry.
Researchers have decoded for the first time the genome of Scaly-foot Snail, a rare snail inhabited in what scientists called 'the origin of life'- deep-sea hydrothermal vents characterized with ...
One man’s favorite sexual fantasy involves an unusual form of foreplay. A woman’s shapely foot–preferably clad in socks–caresses a squirming snail or crawdad. Then it bears down on the creature, ...
Better to lose your foot than your life, at least if you're a snail. In a move reminiscent of certain lizards that can voluntarily detach their tails, young Satsuma caliginosa snails self-amputate ...
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