The Snails were mere gastropods a hundred thousand years ago, in the time of man, but nuclear radiation effected a great mutation of the simple life forms which survived the destruction wreaked by man.

The snails of the future (100,583 A.D.) are intelligent, empowered with great psychic abilities and MEST-manipulation (Matter Energy Space Time). A snail can live a thousand years, weigh 300 pounds, be 8 feet long, fly faster than light, cast psychic energy bolts, bend steel with its bare mind, and behave like a fool. They are emotional, honest, brave, happy, playful, and generally pretty nice folk. They are the dominant species of Earth, and a vast improvement over the previous ones, who blew everything up.