The cone snail uses consomatin to paralyze its prey. The toxin stops blood sugar levels from rising, which is fatal for fish.

The firm renting the space said it was a legitimate snail farming operation. The company, Snai1 Primary Products 2023 Ltd, shares its sole director, Terence Ball, with a company called BoyceBrook ...

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The World Snail Championships have been taking place in the tiny Norfolk village of Congham for more than 60 years Participants in the World Snail Racing Championships will be slugging it out this ...

Early childhood is like being drunk, we learn in the stop-motion animated feature “Memoir of a Snail”: “Everyone remembers what you did except you.” Ah, but later childhood, that’s where ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australian writer-director Adam Elliot’s celebrated “claymation biographies” are definitely not for children. They’re ...

The secretion left behind when the snails crawl on mesh or glass is used to make snail mucin products which are used in the forms of serums, moisturisers, and creams. (Image Credits: Pinterest ...

You may find a kindred spirit in Grace Pudel. The snail-collecting and snail hat-wearing woman is the lead character in “Memoir of a Snail,” the largely enjoyable latest work from Australian ...

In the UK alone, there are 100 species of land snail, and that doesn’t even include the freshwater snails that live in our rivers and lakes. On top of this, the UK is also home to 46 species of ...

“Memoir of a Snail,” by the Oscar-winning Australian animator Adam Elliot, is a grubby delight, a stop-motion charmer that feels like falling into a dumpster and discovering an orchi ...

This is the dismal, strange, and wondrous path trodden by director, writer, and production designer Adam Elliot in his brilliant film Memoir of a Snail. Having long dwelled in narratives that ...

But those are just a few of the unique things about Adam Elliot’s “Memoir of a Snail,” a film that’s as heart-tugging as it is technically impressive, a work of both emotional resonance ...