Researchers and readers write in to explain why snails sometimes leave dotted trails. The researchers have taken it seriously and the readers have mostly made jokes I haven’t seen research done on ...

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When you think about skin care, snail mucin probably isn’t the first product that comes to mind. But snail secretion filtrate—a mucus these teeny mollusks produce to move, stay hydrated, and fend off ...