Slow and steady wins this race. An annual snail racing event — which holds a Guinness World Record as the longest running humane snail-racing world championships — is making a comeback post pandemic.
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“So they start inside the inner circle, the red circle, and it's the first one to cross the 13 and a half inch course and get a nose onto the outer black ring that wins the race.” :: Simon Lilley, ...
For National Snail Day, museum research fellow Melissa Betters explores the mollusks’ notable nature Melissa Betters A shell from the Cuvier tropid snail, a terrestrial species native to Madagascar, ...
It may be the slowest race on the planet. England just hosted the Snail Racing World Championships over the weekend. UPI reports how this past Saturday marked the return of the event in Congham — a ...
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Scientists once thought this snail was extinct. But a surprising discovery and decade-long conservation effort revived the species
In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago—had gone extinct. While later searches turned up some snails that had ...
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