Apple snails can regrow their eyeballs

Image: The Apple Snail can grow a new eye in 28 days. Image credit: Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Article by Laura Baisas. Popular Science – August 6, 2025. Press release: Stowers Institute. Research article: Nature Communications.

If you step on a snail, you’ll know it. The crunch of its shell or the feel of their squishy, slimy bodies underfoot. Despite their slow speeds, and simple bodies, apple snails (Pomacea canaliculata) have eyes that are anatomically similar to human eyes. Both species have complex camera-like eyes with a lens, cornea, and retina that visually capture the world around them. Unlike humans, apple snails can regrow their peepers if they are injured or […]

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Video: Stowers scientists establish apple snail as a research organism for investigating eye regeneration – Stowers Institute for Medical Research