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Garden Snail
Garden snails are the slowest animals on Earth. They move at a maximum speed of 1.3 centimeters per second. That’s just 0.00000436 miles per hour! To put that in perspective, an average human can walk at 3 miles per hour. At their top speed, it would take a snail roughly two days to travel the length of a football field. Snails also have tiny, thread-like tentacles that they use to sense their environment. They also possess a hard, calcareous shell that helps protect them from predators. In addition, snails can sleep for up to three years at a time!
