Shell Twist Determines Snails' Fate

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 16:01 in Biology & Nature

The snail-eating snake Pareas iwasakii has evolved to prey on clockwise-spiraling snails. So while it successfully attacks one snail, it has trouble snagging a snail with a counter-clockwise-spiraling shell. That snail ended up escaping

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