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The ginormous snail

June 4, 2008 - 16,488 views

These guys certainly had a surprise when finding this huge snail in their garden. And, most likely, the garden would be somewhere near a nuclear factory. It would make a plate of escargo for the entire family. Here is one really huge snail.

Giant snail

Giant snail

Giant snail

Giant snail

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33 Responses to “The ginormous snail”

  1. kovi on June 9th, 2008 1:33 am

    A la llauna!

  2. Toplus on June 9th, 2008 2:03 am

    Is fake. The position doesn’t change a bit in all the pictures. Or that or is playing dead….

  3. zcgt21 on June 9th, 2008 5:43 am

    Que caracol, la madre de todos los caracoles.

  4. anon on June 9th, 2008 9:02 am

    or it’s a snail…

  5. Mr Borji on June 9th, 2008 10:22 am

    Oh my god…

  6. me on June 9th, 2008 10:24 am

    I’ts impossible

  7. TwistedPC on June 9th, 2008 10:29 am

    Photoshopped!!

  8. ionku on June 9th, 2008 10:32 am

    another shopped dickhead (@TwistedPC )

  9. Anon on June 9th, 2008 3:28 pm

    @ Toplus
    The snails eye stalk was retracted in the second image due to the picture taker probably touching it with his foot or finger.

    http://www.petsnails.co.uk/species/achatina_fulica.html#start

    “Average adult shell length is 12cm, with a diameter of 6cm. In exceptional cases the shell can grow to be 20cm long…”

    They average 4″ but can get as big as 7 inches and that is just the shell. Not everything on the internet is photoshopped. This is obviously a pet of someone. As you can see the left side of the shell (facing it) has been drilled and a makeshift leash has been attached. So the caption is made up but I am fairly certain that is a image of a real snail.

    They can live up to 10 years and on average between 5 - 7

    The largest species of Snail can grow to almost a foot in length (Again this is the shells length as they don’t change shells but the shell grows with them.)

    Sorry about the minor biology lesson but don’t scream fake without doing some research as it makes you look like an uneducated clod

  10. Roberto on June 9th, 2008 3:52 pm

    Es posible los dichos populares lo contempla:

    “Con paciencia y saliba se la metio un elefante a una hormiga…en este caso a un caracol”

  11. Roberto on June 9th, 2008 3:53 pm

    Dicho popular:

    “Con paciencia y saliba se la metio un elefante a una hormiga… caracol”

  12. Geroge on June 9th, 2008 4:54 pm

    It also looks like a fake, made with a pork lomb…

  13. mozey on June 9th, 2008 9:12 pm

    hehehe!, reminds me of this!

  14. Erp on June 10th, 2008 11:31 am

    Tasty with some garlic, salt and butter!

  15. Tigani on June 10th, 2008 12:28 pm

    EAT IT!

  16. gutugz on June 10th, 2008 2:01 pm

    To the ones claiming that’s photoshoped, can you please do something about your chronical disorder ? Like :
    - Make an internet community where you can show-off your mad photoshop debunking skills to one another, without annoying the whole internet.
    - Just shut up.

    Nobody thinks you’re smart when you cry it’s a fake. In fact you just seem like a gullible naive idiot, who thinks everything that surprise them is photoshopped.

  17. Madison on June 10th, 2008 3:01 pm

    I found one in Hawaii that was pretty big…

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/smokingloon/91226740/

  18. John Thomas on June 10th, 2008 3:20 pm

    Wow, that is one cool looking snail. I dont think I have ever seen one that big before. Pretty neat.

    JT

  19. Jorge O'Malley on June 10th, 2008 6:41 pm

    You internet citizens need to venture out of your caves occasionally. There are a great many things in this world that are strange and weird looking without the help of Photoshop.

  20. dan on June 10th, 2008 7:28 pm

    when i lived in Okinawa they had many large snails about this size that everyone called “African Snails” that had been brought in by someone to combat a local pest. Unfortunately like many attempts by humans to “fix” mother nature they bred out of control and since they were poisonous the locals couldn’t eat them as had been planned.

  21. hogan on June 10th, 2008 9:22 pm

    definitely photoshopped

  22. borgin_von_Schmelski on June 10th, 2008 9:27 pm

    NO WAY MAN!!! look @ this huge snail!

    http://i9.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/f4/86/0516_1.JPG

  23. Livin_in_the_sun on June 11th, 2008 5:16 am

    I think this might be in S.E. Asia somewhere, I just saw a snail almost as big as my fist in Bangkok a couple weeks ago, but my girlfriend told me that they grow much bigger than that in the rural areas here. (hmmm, I wonder if they are poisonous?)

  24. snai on June 13th, 2008 2:31 pm

    its achatina fulica family
    kind of snail from africa and east asia

  25. liljenba on June 17th, 2008 9:32 am

    Wow! Reminds me of “The Neverending Story”

  26. SSnS2 on June 19th, 2008 4:20 am

    Wow…pretty big snail. For those crying photoshop, I’d love to know how that is done! I hear that all the time lately, everything is photoshopped, I have that damn program and can’t even come close to faking something like this!!

  27. tyy on August 19th, 2008 7:31 pm

    gello

  28. Articole gratuite on September 16th, 2008 10:37 am

    wow, thats a big one, and I don’t think its shoped

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