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Snail shell

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(Zool.) the shell of snail.

See also: Snail



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The first known examples of jewellery date back 75,000 years to the Homo sapiens living in Africa: researchers found beads made from perforated snail shells in a place called Blombos Cave.
Veteran fishermen in Burma say that the likelihood of finding a Melo pearl is one per one thousand Melo snail shells.
Cells gradually twist as layers get deeper, creating microstructures that look like snail shells turned on their sides.
 
 
 
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