Living fossils from the deep: snipped snails
Posted by Amaranth Rose on Nov 30, 2002 at 20:19
(63.170.62.86)"Back in 1856, a hapless hermit crab wearing a slitsnail on it's back crawled into a fish trap and the following discovery that "fossil" organisms were alive was received by a wave of enthusiasm."
An expedition to the Bahamas studied a marine creature that is ancient in its roots, yet very much alive.