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Snail robot excretes sticky mucus that helps it crawl up slopes

A remotely controlled robot with an inflatable foot that oozes mucus can crawl across surfaces like a snail, and could inspire soft medical robots that move through mucus-lined cavities in the human body

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snail on a road

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Rory Mc Donnell interview: The slug hunter with a strange new weapon

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Rory Mc Donnell interview: The slug hunter with a strange new weapon

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World's smallest land snail could fit inside a grain of sand

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A snail with an algal coat

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Some snails wear jackets made of algae to protect them from the sun

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Snails in performance

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The world's first snail orchestra makes its crunchy debut

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Achatinella mustelina with brown, white-tipped shell

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World’s loneliest snail lives in Hawaii but can’t get a date

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See the diverse beauty of colourful land snails around the world

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See the diverse beauty of colourful land snails around the world

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World's tiniest snail is so small that 10 fit in a needle's eye

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World's tiniest snail is so small that 10 fit in a needle's eye

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