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Sunday Spinelessness – They’re alive!
It would take the most dedicated reader of The Atavism to remember the empty snail shell I wrote about last year. I’ll admit even I’d mainly forgotten about myself, but this weekend I went on a little...
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Sunday Spinelessness – Looking into the sprial
Next week’s post is going to be really good, but it’s also going to be next week. Here’s a little taster of a post I didn’t leave myself a enough time to write today – a close-up of of the shell of...
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Sunday Spinelessness – New Zealand microsnails
When I tell people I study snails for a living I get one of two replies. There’s either some version of the “joke” that goes “that must be slow-going” or “sounds action packed”, or there’s “oh, you...
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Sunday Spinelessness – Hairy snails
Here’s another of these tiny native snails I talked about last week. Aeschrodomus stipulatus: Not the best photo I’ll admit, but it records enough detail to see the two things that set Aeschrodomus...
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Sunday Spinelessness – How snails conquered the land (again and again)
Christie Willcox wrote a nice article this week on how one small group of organisms called “vertebrates” first evolved to live on land. Since you are a vertebrate who lives on land, you should...
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