21-06-15 近日，国务院发布通知称，国务院批准文化和旅游部确定的第五批国家级非物质文化遗产代表性项目名录(共计185项)和国家级非物质文化遗产代表性项目名录扩展项目名录(共计140项)，现予公布。其中，柳州螺蛳粉制作技艺、沙县小吃制作技艺、桂林米粉制作工艺等上榜第五批国...

15-11-04 The world's record for the smallest land snail is broken once again. A minute shell with an average diameter of 0.7 mm was found in Malaysian Borneo by a team of Dutch and Malaysian biologists along with another 47 new species of greatly varying siz...

13-09-11 Scientists discovered a new species of a peculiar（独特的） cave-dwelling snail in one of the 20 deepest cave systems in the world, Lukina Jama-Trojama in Croatia. The newly discovered species belongs to a genus of minute air-breathing land snails t...

13-09-02 It's 2013. The screens are winning adherents left and right. Print newspapers are turning into snailpapers that arrive at our doorsteps with news that is 12 hours late. 现在是2013年了。各类屏幕已赢得不同派别的集体支持，而纸质报纸正在变成蜗牛报纸。报...

12-08-29 Pity the male of the marine whelk（峨螺） , Solenosteira macrospira. He does all the work of raising the young, from egg-laying to hatching -- even though few of the baby snails are his own. The surprising new finding by researchers at the Universit...

12-04-06 Hidden in the mud, the cone snail Conus purpurascens lies in wait for its victims. It attracts its prey, fish, with its proboscis（鼻子） , which can move like a worm, protruding from the mud. Once a fish approaches out of curiosity, the snail will...

11-11-07 A new minute freshwater snail species belonging to the genus Daphniola was found by a researcher from University of Athens (Canella Radea) in a spring covered by snow on Mt. Parnassos, central Greece. This study was published in the open access jour...

11-06-23 Snail mail refers to a letter or package physically delivered by a postal service, suggesting that the service is as slow as a snail. People would like to use this term especially when the object mailed could have been sent electronically via e-mail...

10-01-19 New insights洞察力，眼力 about a tiny snail蜗牛 that lives on the ocean floor could help scientists design better armor for soldiers and vehicles, according to MIT麻省理工学院 researchers. A team of materials scientists, led by MIT Associate Profess...

09-11-20 A nutritionist（营养学家） in Nigeria says that malnutrition（营养不良） and iron deficiency in schoolchildren（小学生，学童） could be reduced in her country by baking up snail pie. In a research paper to be published in the International Journal o...