Soon, a local couple invited him to their house and showed him five 25-gallon trash bags filled with painted snail shells. They had “easily, easily 30,000,” D’Amicis estimates.

A tiny new snail species discovered in Thailand has been named after legendary artist Pablo Picasso, due to the strange, complex geometric patterns seen on its shell.

This adult Partula tohiveana snail doesn't have a dot of UV-reflective paint on its shell, meaning it was born in the wild. Paul Pearce-Kelly. In French Polynesia, tiny snails are making a big ...