Experience: I helped a snail find love
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It is difficult for lefty snails to mate with normal snails because they have genitals on the opposite side of their headIt…
It is difficult for lefty snails to mate with normal snails because they have genitals on the opposite side of their headIt…
Symmetry has often been touted as the root of beauty. But beauty, we know, is only skin-deep. Inside the human body…
A new study in Evolution Letters has shown that two types of snails are the same species, despite previously being considered…
“I got rhythm,…”, following this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded for insights into organisms’ 24 hour rhythm driven by…
Jeremy is a garden snail. He’s also a lefty, or “sinistral mutant,” which means that unlike other members of his species, Jeremy…
Jeremy the garden snail was born a mirror image of most snails—a fact that’s made mating impossible.
This is another fascinating paper showing how little we know about the most basic questions, including ‘symmetry-breaking…
An international team of researchers has discovered a gene in snails that determines whether their shells twist clockwise or…