26 August 2013

Time-Lapse Video Captures Snails Tagged With LED Lights At Night

[Click here to view the video in this article]







An amazing time-lapse video of hundreds of 'glowing' snails has been done in the name of science, not art.



Researchers from the Ecology department at the University of Exeter tracked the activity of 450 garden snails using LED lights, UV paints, and time-lapse photography in a bid to discover the ways in which lungworm infections are spread from snails to dogs.



Click below to watch the full-length video:













[via This Is Colossal]