Living fossils from the deep: snipped snails

Posted by
Amaranth Rose on Nov 30, 2002 at 20:19
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"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.

When is a snail not a snail?




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