Uploaded December 2010 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago

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Iwasaki's snail-eating snake approaches a snail with a counter-clockwise shell. It strikes from the left, as it always does, but fails to extract the snail.

Read the full story at: discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/single-gene-creates-snake-resistant-mirror-image-snails-and-maybe-some-new-species

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Video copyright of Masaki Hoso.

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