Outdoor Professsor's Tips

      Hello, I'm the OUTDOOR PROFESSOR from DiscoveringTheOutdoors.com/    Here's your outdoor tip on snails.   Snails are found in gardens, ponds, and even the sea.  They are related to oysters, clams, and other shellfish in the group called molluscs.  They have unsegmentated bodies protected by a hard shell.  The main difference between a slug and snail is the snail has a shell holding its visceral hump containing its organs.  The shell is attached to the body and proves refuge when it is disturbed.  Snails are gastropods from the Latin gastro for stomach and pod for foot or belly-footed animal.   Snail ancestors are one of the earliest known animals in the world with primitive gastropods living 500 million years ago.  Gastropods rank only behind insects as far as the number of named species.   Snails are most active at night and on cloudy days.  When disturbed, they withdraw back into their shells.  With dry weather, a s