@SandHillThicket
fear not.
"gastropods-which account for 80 percent of all mollusks-are one of the most successful animal groups.
They have existed for half a billion years, surviving or reevolving through several mass extinction events.
They make their home in nearly every habitat on earth. While thirty-five thousand living terrestrial snail species have been documented,
tens of thousands are not yet identified."
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@SandHillThicket
"The majority of these are microscopic, as Ernest Ingersoll points out in his 1881 essay "In a Snailery":
"Some [snail species] are so minute that they would not hide the letter o in this print."
If we Homo sapiens thought we were in charge of the planet,
here was clear evidence to the contrary. The humble snail and its clan have a far older, and stickier, foothold on the earth than we..."