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
Poor fisherman stumbles across rare ORANGE pearl worth £250,000 inside a snail shell on a Thai beach Hatchai Niyomdecha, 37, discovered the orange pearl in Nakhon Si Thammarat The pearl was in a snail shell attached to a discarded buoy that washed ashore Niyomdecha hopes money from selling the pearl will lift his family out … Read more
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
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 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
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
The mystery of the volcano-dwelling snail and its iron shell has been unravelled by scientists after its genome was decoded for the first time. The scaly-foot snail (Chrysomallon squamiferum) survives in what researchers have called the ‘impossible living conditions’ of underwater volcanic vents. Enduring searing temperatures, high pressure, strong acidity and low oxygen, it is … Read more