{"id":481377,"date":"2026-02-17T19:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481377\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T19:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:58:10","slug":"its-nearly-a-gigantic-one-metre-long-and-weighs-the-same-as-a-three-year-old-child-now-thats-one-big-snail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481377\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s nearly a gigantic one metre long and weighs the same as a three-year-old child \u2013 now that&#8217;s one big snail&#8230;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among terrestrial species, that title would go to one of several closely related species of giant African land <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/how-to\/identify-wildlife\/how-to-identify-slugs-and-snails\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">snail<\/a>. According to Guinness World Records, the record holder, with a shell measured in 1978 at 27.3cm long, was named Gee Geronimo and kept as a pet in West Sussex.<\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/what-are-molluscs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">marine<\/a> snails can grow bigger than that, though. Australian trumpet shells can reach 72.2cm in length and weigh as much as an average three-year-old human.<\/p>\n<p> Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/fossils-guide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fossil<\/a> ammonites exceeded 2m in diameter but, being more closely related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/marine-animals\/squid-vs-octopus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">octopuses and squid<\/a>, they don\u2019t really count as snails.<\/p>\n<p>Main image: close up on a snail shell\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>More wildlife questions answered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among terrestrial species, that title would go to one of several closely related species of giant African land&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-481377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}