Two lefties make a right -- if you are a one-in-a-million garden snail
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 - 12:50
in Biology & Nature
A global campaign to help find a mate for a left-coiling snail called 'Jeremy' has enabled scientists to understand how mirror-image garden snails are formed. The findings show that the rare left-spiraling shell of some garden snails is usually a development accident, rather than an inherited condition.