The Science Life Animals

The fine art of hunting microsnails

Beauty and sorrow in five millimeters or less

microsnail

TEENY TINY Some of the most elaborately spiked and contorted terrestrial snail shells, as on this Plectostoma concinnum, are among the smallest, 5 millimeters or less.

Peter Koomen

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

There’s a trick to finding new species of miniature snails: a bucket of water.