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Building a Mansion for a Snail

Embark on a whimsical journey as we construct the ultimate sanctuary in "Building a Mansion for a Snail." Witness creativity in action as we transform everyday materials into an extravagant, miniature ...

To Feel at Home in a New Place, It Helps to Think Like a Snail

It was huge. Its light brown shell stood taller than the tip of my shoe. Its yellowish-green body stretched about an inch ...
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Video: Snail-inspired swarm robots cooperate to build structures on demand

A new video demonstration from researchers at the Robotics and AI Lab at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Shenzhen, shows how a group of spherical, snail-inspired robots can collectively ...
The New York Times

This Tiny Fish’s Mistaken Identity Halted a Dam’s Construction

Scientists say the snail darter, whose endangered species status delayed the building of a dam in Tennessee in the 1970s, is a genetic match of a different fish. By Jason Nark For such a tiny fish, ...
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This Tiny Snail Is Nature’s Most Underrated Predator

Snails seem like slow, unassuming animals until you meet the cone snail. This mollusk packs a punch as one of the most predatory and venomous creatures crawling the seafloor. This YouTube video shows ...
Daily Herald

Stop-motion charmer ‘Memoir of a Snail’ examines shells we build around us

It’s not your typical stop-motion film when characters name pets after Sylvia Plath and read “The Diary of Anne Frank” — or when the story’s inspired by a quote from existentialist thinker Søren ...
Texarkana Gazette

Movie Review | ‘Memoir of a Snail,’ a stop-motion charmer, examines the shells we build around us

It's not your typical stop-motion film when characters name pets after Sylvia Plath and read "The Diary of Anne Frank" -- or when the story's inspired by a quote from existentialist thinker Soren ...