Tiniest Snail Ever Found Could Fit Through Needle's Eye 10 Times

The newly discovered snail species, found in China, may be the world's smallest land snail. This is a large group, according to Barna Páll-Gergely of Shinshu University in Japan and colleagues, who wrote in 2014 in the journal ZooKeys that snails this small account for most of the diversity in tropical land snails. The newest, tiniest snail is one of seven species recently discovered in China, the researchers reported today (Sept. 28) in ZooKeys.