A different kind of necking

Team members at New Zealand’s Department of Conservation recently bore witness for the first time to the egg-laying process of Powelliphanta augusta, a large, carnivorous hermaphrodite snail that mates and lays eggs through a hole in its neck. Ingrid Gruner, the department’s regional biodiversity liaison, told the Guardian that the team had “struck lucky” when video taken during a routine weight check of one of the snails captured the moment the small white egg emerged.

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