Twenty years of continuous sleep! That is the amazing record held by a land snail, the property of Walter F. Webb, of Rochester. New York. It followed another 10 years' dormant stretch, terminating one summer, when Webb revived the snail. Now it has equalled Rip Van Winkle’s fabled record, and still seems able to sleep indefinitely. 2. __
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 371, 4 June 1928, Page 13
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