snails

Jealousy among snails is a strange thing to witness

Top 10 Photos of the Week | Impact Lab 2010

** Schisto = schistosomiasis: fun disease borne in stagnant water, where a parasite breeds in snails, is just itching to jump into your waiting open wounds, and then involves some type of exploding of the brain.

Archive 2009-09-01 Kate Fleurange 2009

The snails use the cool temperature as a cue to produce more offspring equipped with penises—snails, in other words, that can mate with other snails.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

The snails use the cool temperature as a cue to produce more offspring equipped with penises—snails, in other words, that can mate with other snails.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

The snails use the cool temperature as a cue to produce more offspring equipped with penises—snails, in other words, that can mate with other snails.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

But they still collect and secrete their adapted particles from the same mass of blood as in snails and dew-worms, but do not seem to be so placed as to produce an embryon by the mixture of their secreted fluids, but to require the mutual assistance of two hermaphrodites for that purpose.

Note VIII 1803

There's something delightful about the idea of snails that "reproduce rapidly."

Community of Notions 2010

There's something amusing about the idea of snails on caffeine.

Making Light: Like an ice storm, only with more volume 2010

The spud of doom is propelled by classic French escargot snails to us Americans.

Game Show Results Jen 2008

The spud of doom is propelled by classic French escargot snails to us Americans.

Archive 2008-10-01 Jen 2008