Small Smooth Snail Shell (with black & gray snail)

I like it when they are jus' a lil' bit different from the usual!

I found it on a piece of locust wood....enjoying some wet leaves.

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Black Snail & Giant Snail

In an old pile of rough sawn wood, mixed with leaves and decay I found some really neat snails yesterday morning!

Have you ever seen a black snail? I hadn't ... it's shell was tinted slightly darker then the common colored snail, i think cause of it's dark black body wrapped up on the inside. These black snails were really striking and fun to watch - they seemed to be quick and not too shy.
Even it's eyeballs are black!
and there was more then one...
I also found a GINORMOUS snail, most likely the biggest regular snail I have ever seen in the forest. I didn't even know they got so thick, old looking and bulky!
That is my hand and a regular sized snail next it it for size... the splashes of white on it's shell, I could not tell if that's something growing on it, or bleached out spots from sunlight?
Have you ever seen the "snail scene" in Microcosmos (the movie about insect life close up and beautiful?) Watch it, it's hawt!
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Snail With Spotted Shell

What a pretty spotted shell this tiny snail has. Did you know that snails can not hear anything and are hermaphadites that contain both male and female reproductive organs?
The other neat thing I learned about snails is they are not even insects, their scientific classification has crowned them as part of the Mollusk family! It's a land dwelling creature belonging to the same phylum as octopus, oysters and squids. :)
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Little Snail

I love any creature that can shape shift. The way a cat puffs up in defense, a turtle fits himself into his shell, a bird poofs out for his special mating dance, a blowfish turns to a ball of spikes and this little snail can squeeze effortlessly into this tiny shell. Check out this link to the "transformer hooter" - an awesome video of an owl who can make himself big and tiny!