Snail hides from march of history :

A colony of Mediterranean snails has been found at the UK's Cliveden House, where they have lived in marble-wrapped secrecy for a century.
The snails, never found before in the UK, apparently came from Italy in a balustrade bought by a Lord Astor, a former owner of the mansion.
There are thought to be several hundred of the 11mm-long snails at Cliveden.
John Profumo met model Christine Keeler at the Buckinghamshire house in 1961, which led to a political scandal.
Footballer Steven Gerrard married at the National Trust property last year.
Amidst all this activity - and the visits down the years of luminaries as important as Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw and Charlie Chaplin - the Papillifera papillaris snail has been a reclusive guest.