How Big Is Garden snail? 3 cm (1.18 in) Compared

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Garden snail (3 cm) drawn to scale beside a large coin (2.4 cm) and a smartphone (14.7 cm) — Drawn to scale, from left to right: Large coin (2.4 cm), Garden snail (3 cm) and Smartphone (14.7 cm).

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How big is that, really?

A little wider than a large coin
About 2 would fit end to end along a credit card
About 4.3× the length of a grain of rice
As wide as about 15 raindrops side by side
About 4 would fit end to end along a smartphone

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Facts about Garden snail

A garden snail’s shell grows in a spiral as the animal adds new material around its opening.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, snail

Nature

Name	Size	Compared with Garden snail
Common pill bug	1.2 cm (0.47 in)	0.4×
Gippsland giant earthworm	2 cm (0.79 in)	0.67×
Bargibant’s seahorse	2.4 cm (0.94 in)	0.8×
Blue dragon sea slug	3 cm (1.18 in)	same size
Garden snail	3 cm (1.18 in)	this page
Bee hummingbird	5.5 cm (2.17 in)	1.8×
Monarch butterfly	9.5 cm (3.74 in)	3.2×
Luna moth	11.5 cm (4.53 in)	3.8×
Venus flytrap	15 cm (5.91 in)	5×
Pygmy marmoset	15 cm (5.91 in)	5×

Test your sense of scale

Which is bigger: Garden snail or Bargibant’s seahorse?

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