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This 1900 snail-woman sculpture is pure art nouveau magic

This 1900 sculpture depicts an ethereal snail-woman hybrid with a delicate human face emerging from antennae and shell.
Artnet

How Snail Shells Taught Scientists That a Famous Land Art Formation Was Thousands of Years Younger Than Believed

A massive figure in Dorset, England, of a naked man wielding a club, known as the Cerne Abbas Giant, is not prehistoric, as was previously believed, according to tests of snail shells found on the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Snail Shells Date England’s Cerne Abbas Giant to Medieval, Not Prehistoric, Era

Volunteers repair and re-chalk the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset, England. The 180-foot figure has been on the grassy hillside as long as anyone alive can remember, but many wondered if it might be ...
HeraldNet

While snails can symbolize laziness, their shells have long inspired art

Adorned with colorful glass “jewels,” this miniature brass snail’s shell was striking enough to fetch $51 at auction. In real life, snails are unwelcome pests. But this one brings the shine of brass ...
BBC

Cerne Abbas Giant: Snails show chalk hill figure 'not prehistoric'

Snails have shown an ancient naked figure sculpted into a chalk hillside is unlikely to be prehistoric as hoped, archaeologists have said. Tests of soil samples extracted from Dorset's Cerne Abbas ...
BBC

Cerne Abbas Giant: Snails show chalk hill figure 'not prehistoric'

Snails have shown an ancient naked figure sculpted into a chalk hillside is unlikely to be prehistoric as hoped, archaeologists have said. Tests of soil samples extracted from Dorset's Cerne Abbas ...