Aquatic snails lay their eggs in a gelatinous mass, which can hold hundreds of little guys like these, squirming in their developing bodies and shells. Depending on the species, you might find these sacks of eggs floating in water of stuck to plants, or maybe even on the wall of an aquarium. But as terrifying as the prospect of a future filled with hundreds of new snails ready to eat up all the James' samples is, even he is is ready to admit that these are kind of adorable. They are both squishy and iridescent, an uncommon paring made all the cuter with their beady little eyes. The snail eggs that James finds usually develop pretty fast, sometimes hatching within a few days of when he stumbles upon them. But this time he was lucky, he was able to catch them right before they hatched so the embryos were fully visible.