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First of all, your question should be: "How long have snails and slugs been around?" Simple subject-verb agreement.
Second, if you do a search on Google for "snails and slugs origin" you will find that snails and slugs belong to the species named 'gastropod'.
Third, a search for 'gastropod', again on Wikipedia, turns up an article that states: "The first gastropods were exclusively marine, with the earliest representatives of the group appearing in the Late Cambrian."
Fourth, just click on the blue text "Cambrian" and that will take you to a final article that tells you the late Cambrian is about 500 million years ago.
So to answer your question: snails and slugs have been around for about 500 million years, give or take a few tens of millions of years.
If you're going to correct someone, you should make sure all your facts are correct as well. Gastrapoda is not the name of a species its the name of the class. There are different genus in this class and many different species in each genus.
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How long does it take fora snil to build a new shell?
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Does female ejaculate semen?
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Slugs life expectancy?
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Do snails like the sun?
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Why are slugs long?
Because they are
What are facts about snails?
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Does aluminum foil repell snails?
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Can slugs drown?
I'd argue the slugs drowning in water, i put slugs into my fish tank for the fish and they just move around as normal, maybe the will drown over time i'm not sure they don't last that long, one even made it to the top of my tank
How long do you cook snails in the oven?
Depends. What are you trying to do to the snails?
