snail
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For Hughes, it is "very exciting" so see fresh momentum behind saving the glutinous snail.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
With years of data showing that people will rent and watch just about anything, Netflix was free to make a home for all the bombs and duds that it previously offered via snail mail.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
"Some bee species burrow holes in wood or in the ground, or use empty structures for nests. Some species in Europe and Africa even build their nests in empty snail shells,"
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
The will, dated March 2015, surfaced via snail mail, and his family has declared it a “scam.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
I thought immediately of the moon snail that Fred showed me in Folly Cove and I wondered how nature could make that perfect pattern in two different animals, for different reasons.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
They were the first invertebrates -- a broad group of animals including spiders, snails and worms -- shown to use celestial navigation for such long trips.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
The venom peptides that snakes and snails use are built as closed loops, which is what lets them survive intact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Two newly identified snail species have expanded the known diversity of European land snails.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Hughes said the snails were "something to preserve and cherish like Egyptian artefacts".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
I’m pretty sure the snails and whatever else is in your aquarium will die without an intervention, but I don’t really want to become a guardian to your orphans.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
