greg han: i was just, i don't distance while scrubbing dishes and i w this little bit of bright blue hat did not look like anything you would see in your backyard. emily han: our claim to fame is we discovered a population of previously undiscovered snls in los angeles. so, we immediately started looking for more snails and found a bunch of other really tiny, little snails. he put a picture of th snails on instagram, and once he did that, we got a tification that scientists and other snail enthusiasts ery excited about this snail find. woman: it looks great back here, emily. emily han: thanks. woman: and i contacted gregory to say, can i come out and get it because we don't have any of those specime in the collection. yep, that's xerotricha there. and who's ittle guy? emily han: is that a cochlicella barbara? y teeny, tiny one? juvenile. so, in february 1 of 2016, i came out here, the hans invited me, and we just did a little exploration of their backyard anected xerotricha conspurcata, so, the species we're talking about, but then also this other species called cochlicella barbara, w