Scientists glued computers on snails to figure out how they survived in the ...

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It's not sharks with laser beams, but scientists have attached computers smaller than a thimble to a type of snail in the South Pacific to learn how they avoided a violent predator that resulted in 50 other species going extinct.   

The findings note that the Partula hyalina - a tropical land snail - was able to avoid the rosy wolf snail by living in sunlit parts of the forests' edge in the South Pacific Society Islands and using its white shell that reflected light, instead of absorbing it.

'We were able to get data that nobody had been able to obtain,' said study co-author David Blaauw, in a statement. 

'And that's because we had a tiny computing system that was small enough to stick on a snail.'

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