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Mating Ned Devine? The New Zealand snail turned global celebrity
Mating Ned Devine? The New Zealand snail turned global celebrity
"Most snail shells spiral clockwise, but Ned’s curves the other way — an unusual genetic quirk found in roughly one in around 40,000 snails."

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Donal Hickey: Sluggish? Not this snail
Donal Hickey: Sluggish? Not this snail

Can you imagine how long it would take a slug, or a snail, to crawl 200km? In space travel parlance, it would take millions of light years. Unless it hitched a lift.

Mon, 14 May, 2018

Oliver Moore: Co-op model ideal for snail farming
Oliver Moore: Co-op model ideal for snail farming
Two hundred and fifty people attended a two day snail farming conference organised by NOTS — the National Organic Training Skillnet — in Tullamore last week. This level of interest is significant, and there appears to be an export market available, due to the shortfall in supply in Italy and France in particular.

Thu, 24 Nov, 2016

Danny Healy-Rae claims ‘ridiculous Kerry snail’ is holding up Macroom bypass
Danny Healy-Rae claims ‘ridiculous Kerry snail’ is holding up Macroom bypass
The controversial Kerry snail has been accused of causing 45 minute traffic delays and denying the county investment and jobs.

Fri, 08 Jul, 2016

Heidi Klum's boyfriend bought her a $22,000 plastic snail
Heidi Klum's boyfriend bought her a $22,000 plastic snail

The 42-year-old supermodel playfully nudged boyfriend Vito Schnabel to buy the luxury snail for her at the seventh annual Milan amfAR auction in Milan, Italy, last night.

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