New ‘Picasso’ snail looks like a work of art

New ‘Picasso’ snail looks like a work of art

Anauchen picasso. Credit: Gojšina et al. The famous cubist artist Pablo Picasso never painted snails, but if he had, they might have looked something like a newly discovered species from Thailand. The 3mm microsnail has rectangularly angled whorls which, according to the scientists who found it, look “like a cubist interpretation” of regular snails’ rounded whorls. Not surprisingly they named the species Anauchen picasso. The group of malacologi…