twisted shell

Newly Discovered Snail "Breaks All the Shell Rules"

bleimanb | January 15, 2008

Any snail enthusiast knows that their favorite creatures' shells follow certain stead-fast rules: They are cone shaped, right handed, and spiral on a single axis logarithmically. Well, let me just tell you what a shock it was to the snail community when scientists recently discovered the Opisthostoma vermiculum in Malaysia. The snail version of James Dean, the Opisthostoma vermiculum's shell breaks all the rules and answers to no one. Do you think you're the boss of it? You're not. What a Hell's Angel's shell would look like if he wore one... Seen in the picture above the Opisthostoma…