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Name: Shanon
Status: educator
Age: 6-8
Location: MN
Country: N/A
Date: 8/26/2005
Question:
I jog each morning early. I see many snails on my paths. Today I noticed, only one of the snails I saw had a shell. All others seemed to have lost theirs... I've never observed or heard of this phenomenon before. What are possible explanations?

Replies:
You probably just observed many slugs of the same size. They can look similar to snails without shells!

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