About 170,000 years ago early humans were roasting and eating snails. Not just regular garden snails that you'll likely step on and squish while walking a garden path after dark or land snails the French like to eat. Oh no. The 170,000-year-old humans were roasting and eating giant land snails that probably weighed in at about 2+ pounds. I'm thinking that should you step on a two-pound land snail, well, the snail might knock your night-blind ass square in the dirt and then slime your face for good measure. So...watch out where you step. Sorry, I digress. Back to the neolithic land snails getting roasted and eaten. Paleontologists doing research in South Africa discovered giant land snail shells having been roasted and emptied of their giant land snail meat in a South African cave and then and then, they authored up their paleontologist findings in Quarternary Science Reviews and there you go. So after the French caught wind of the giant land snail discovery, they sort of went apeshit and wanted to know what in the hell happened to these giant land snails and why have the French been kept in the dark about the snail's existence. The short answer is obvious. The early humans ate all the dang giant land snails and there you go. It seems the French are to this day carrying a chip over the loss of the giant land snails. Some folk are never happy about a damn thing. Now for Thursday machine art.
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I've had up close and personal encounters with snails for a long long time. I'm pretty certain that a two-plus pound giant land snail would make one icky dang mess upon being foot crushed, SQUISH! 😏
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