• Question: where do snails come from?

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      Asked by jazzplaysminecraft to Rob, Martin, James, Elizabeth on 7 Mar 2015.
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        James Coombs OBrien answered on 7 Mar 2015:


        Interesting question, I must admit I had to look this up.

        From what I found snails started out as sea creatures roaming the sea floor before they evolved and came on land. This happened around 550 million years ago (550,000,000 years) so they have been around much longer than humans!

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        Elizabeth Cooper answered on 9 Mar 2015:


        The back garden! 🙂

        The earliest snail species originated in shallow waters. As water sources dried up they developed lungs and starting living on land.

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