Astonishing Snail
History by Balazs Hardi (© 2006) There are tons of astonishing facts and fictions about snails all around the world. Most of us know almost nothing about the present snail history and absolutely nothing about their past. I, as a professional snail history expert, answer thousands of questions about snails every year. I collected few of the most interesting ones on this page. |
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Q:
Existed in the history snails with legs ? |
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(A) Snailegosaurus
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(B) Snailegosaurus
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Q: How old is
the earliest prehistoric snail we know of ? A: 550 million years old. It is the Spiralosaurus. We don't know too much about it. We are sure that they hated the red color and were vegetarians. Their long neck helped them to survive for millions of years but they all died of hunger in the first Ice Age. As we mentioned above they surely had bones and this made it to be possible to have a so long neck for them. Another interesting fact that even if they had 4 brains they were not smarter than an ant. |
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(C) Spiralosaurus
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Q: Are any prehistoric
snails still living today? A: No Unfortunately only one species of snails survived the last Ice Age. They are known as Spirice. They successfully adapted themselves to the cold. They changed their un insulated "house" to an ice shell, in which they could stay alive even in the biggest cold. But after the ice age passed away they were not able to adapt themselves to the warm weather, and they disappeared from Earth. |
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(D) Spirice
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Q: What is the first known "snail" story
from human history ? A: So far, as I know, it is the Trojan Snail. Most of you has already heard about the Trojan Horse since it is in the history books. But only very few of us know about the Trojan Snail. Why? Because it wasn't a successful project like the "Horse" one. We don't know what happened exactly but the Wooden Snail was ruined before got used for the trick. |
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(E) Trojan
Snail (wood) |
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Q: Have any human army used snails
during it's war operations ? |
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(F) German
War Snail |
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English Secret Agent Snail: They are my personal favorites. I could write a whole book about them. They presented the highest technical achievements of their age (1940-45) They had many miniature electronic equipments integrated into their shell and body. Just to name a few: infrared eye, radio receiver, photo machine, knife, robot arm, etc. (I'm in the progress of making an animation about how they used these things) As they worked secretly we know only a few things about their operation. What we know: they produced 23576 useful reports during the II. World War and they saved about 458 human agents from the cruel death. |
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(G) English
Secret Agent Snail |
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Japanese Kamikaze Snail |
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(H) Japanese
Kamikaze Snail |
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More stuff will be available in printed format when I'll find a Publishing partner. |
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If you are an American book or magazine publisher and you are interested
in getting my funny Snail materials to be published in any form, please
contact me at: hardi@milliondollarcomicspage.com. |
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