World’s largest snail-eating festival: Spain devoured 14,000kg of snails in three days!

Around 15,000 participants gathered in the Spanish city of Lleida for L’Aplec del Caragol for a three-day festival dedicated ...
Daily Mail

Snails aren't a French dish after all! Spanish cavemen were eating them 10,000 years earlier, scientists claim

Snails may be considered a French delicacy, but it was in fact Spanish cavemen who discovered the cuisine 10,000 years before their northern neighbours. Hundreds of burnt snail shells were found ...
Science Daily

Tiny glassy snails discovered in caves of Northern Spain

Two new species of tiny subterranean snails enrich the biodiversity of Northern Spain. Zospeum vasconicum and Zospeum zaldivarae belong to a group of blind, diaphanous snails known to inhabit caves ...
UPI

Snail fossils reveal origin of rocks used to carve ancient Spanish monuments

Aug. 3 (UPI) --A number of famed Spanish stone monuments feature gastropod fossils dating back to the time of the dinosaurs. Using the fossils as a guide, researchers were able to identify the ...