06 Snails Are Weird

In which we wave “hullo!” to honest-to-goodness real animals, and they wave back with their cute little stalk eyes

You’ll look deep into the eyes of a snail, and see yourself staring back. You’ll hear the stories of Aristotle and Carolus Linnaeus. You’ll learn about the perils of being alive, the strangeness of biological sex, the deep unity of animal life, and that one time that snails ruled the Earth.