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The tragic love life of Jeremy, the world’s loneliest snail

Ellsworth Toohey
Jan 12, 2026
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By Angus Davison - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

In 2016, a retired scientist in London discovered a garden snail with a shell that coiled counterclockwise — the opposite of nearly every other snail on Earth. He named the snail Jeremy, after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (also a lefty), and what followed was an international quest to find the lonely gastrop…

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