This Tiny New Species of Snail Looks Like It Was Designed by Picasso

Scitech Daily ^ | May 06, 2025 | Staff

[Carry_Okie]

Too symmetrical for Picasso.
More like MC Escher, in color.

[dfwgator]

[TheThirdRuffian]

More Dali than Picasso

[TheThirdRuffian]

Escher would be all lines and angles.

[FreedomNotSafety]

Not a new species. A newly discovered species. Despite evolutionary newspeak there have not been any species using the traditional definition of such.

[Blurb2350]

Yes, definitely not Picasso. Maybe Dürer or da Vinci.

[lee martell]

Very nice photos showing a few natural formations of nature, although they appear quite similar to other Ramshorn freshwater snails I have seen in the past.
Those little protection spikes along the aperture opening, that, I have not seen before. I’m sure the ever nibbling fish did not appreciate the spikes at all.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Looks more Leonardo da Vinci, 'The Golden Spiral' to me:

[Carry_Okie]

Escher would be all lines and angles.

He did curves too.

[tcox4575]

They got the “designed” part right, just the wrong Artist.

[Red Badger]

The 'spiral' is God's signature.

It's everywhere, from the tiniest subatomic particle, to the largest galaxy. ...............

[CatHerd]

My first thought was more Gaudi than Picasso.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Dürer would have some dude with a spear fighting it.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Absolutely true. But most of his stuff was trig-based hard angles.

[telescope115]

I was wondering how they would taste with garlic and butter, but then I saw how small they are. One would need a whole lot of them.

[IYAS9YAS]

I don’t get it.

[Red Badger]

You’ve heard of ‘Popcorn Shrimp’?....well these are ‘Popcorn Snails’!..................

[kawhill]

“A snail crawling along the edge of a straight razor. That’s my dream, that’s my nightmare. A snail crawling, slithering along the edge of a straight razor, and surviving”. Col. Walter E. Kurtz, Commander, 5th Special Forces.

[Track9]

North Korean stomach snail.