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Snails and mussels are sensitive to water pollutants.

From Slate • Apr. 27, 2026

Snails that had already adapted to the tidal cycles in the rivers in their early life had a greater number of circatidal oscillating genes compared to the nontidal population.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2024

The newly discovered complex includes the entrance arch, the House of the Snails, the House of the Moon, and the so-called Palace of the Phalluses.

From Reuters • Feb. 11, 2023

Snails also exhibit no outward gender identity until the moment of copulation.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2021

Snails bury their mothers in special places, and it was to one of these places that they carried what Tortoise thought was the body of Snail’s mother.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith