Nature: New species of SNAIL named after tennis ace Novak Djokovic

Meet T. djokovici! New species of SNAIL is named after tennis ace Novak Djokovic ‘to acknowledge his inspiring enthusiasm and energy’ Researchers found the new species in a spring in the Montenegrin Dinaric Alps T. djokovici has a 1.8-mm-tall white spiral shell in the shape of an elongated cone It is adapted to live in … Read more

The Masked Singer: Kermit The Frog reveals identity on season five premiere after competing as Snail

Kermit The Frog revealed his identity after his performance as the Snail stumped the whole panel on Wednesday’s season five premiere of The Masked Singer on Fox.   The beloved Muppet character performed the 1981 song You Make My Dreams (Come True) by Hall & Oates after a clues package revealed that he has acted, directed, … Read more

Elon Musk’s Boring Company hosts contest to find a machine that digs a tunnel faster than a snail

Elon Musk envisions tunnels deep in the ground to solve ‘soul-destroying traffic’ – but now he needs your help. The billionaire is hosting a competition through The Boring Company that challenges the public to dig a 98-foot deep tunnel with a circular opening of 19.7 inches. According to The Boring Company’s site, the main objective … Read more

The new elixir of youth? Snail slime! SARAH BARCLAY puts it to the test

Snail slime? Hmm. It doesn’t exactly have the same ring as past flavour-of-the-moment beauty ingredients such as Caviar and rose-stem cells. Snail mucus sounds more like something Bear Grylls would slap on a companion to deal with a nasty sunburn. Nevertheless, snail mucin (as it is technically known) is the hot ingredient of the moment. … Read more

Jeremy the garden snail with a left-coiling shell finds a mate – but the trait is NOT carried over

Jeremy the left-coiling lovelorn garden snail captured the nation’s heart when scientists put out an appeal to help him find love – but his children weren’t what they were expecting. No stone was left unturned as Britons hunted for another ‘super rare’ left-spiralling snail to be his mate back in 2016, as the ‘shellebrity’s’ mirror-imaged … Read more

Sea snail venom used to create a new type of insulin for diabetes treatment

Insulin developed from the venom of a predatory sea snail could be used to create a ‘safer and more effective’ diabetes treatment, researchers claim. It mimics the ultra-fast-acting properties of the sea snail venom to lower blood sugar levels, without long-term side effects seen in other types of diabetes treatment.  University of Utah led scientists … Read more