Hey, it's a puddle that was just a little deeper than you thought.

Ali Ward here, another episode of Smaller Gs.

So Smaller Gs episodes are just like regular full-size, Aalogies episodes, but we de-adult

them, if you will, and we wouldal them down to about 20 or 30 minutes.

So the regular Aalogies episodes that you like, but are too filthy for kids or your grandparents,

these are classroom-safe versions of them.

Also, they're small, so they're perfect for short little walks and commutes.

Okay, speaking of small things, let's talk about slugs and snails.

Malacology.

So the study of mollusks and malacology comes from the Greek word for soft animal, and it

deals with mollusks ranging from snails and slugs to bivalves and octopuses.

So many.

There are a ton of malacological subsets and adults, you can see the amazing two-thology

episode on squids, but there isn't a specific allergy for snails.

Immacology is a study of slugs, but snails don't get their own.

What?

So this episode is just a carnival of both slug and snail facts.

And this guest is a curator at the Natural History Museum of Bela County.

They did their undergrad in biology and geology at Colgate and went on to earn a PhD in Integrative

Biology at Berkeley.

So get ready for some belly-footing slime cruisers.

Dizzying, denticles, and tiny terrifying teeth.

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