In hydrothermal vent fields, a small snail evolved an iron-reinforced shell. Here’s how it challenges assumptions about ...
Dense groups of marine snails called Littorina saxatilis once thrived on a group of Swedish islands called the Koster archipelago. But in 1988, a massive bloom of toxic algae hit the islands, and ...
Snails on a tiny rocky islet evolved before scientists' eyes. The marine snails were reintroduced after a toxic algal bloom wiped them out from the skerry. While the researchers intentionally brought ...
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Island snails are vanishing as Pacific becomes ground zero for extinctions
Across the tropical Pacific, some of the planet’s most distinctive land snails are slipping out of existence, turning once noisy, living forests into quieter, emptier places. Nowhere is that loss more ...
University of Iowa biologists discovered that a New Zealand freshwater snail duplicated its entire genome, capturing a rare evolutionary transitory state. The finding shows how large-scale genetic ...
It is 1988. The Koster archipelago, a group of islands off the Swedish west coast near the border with Norway, is hit by a particularly dense bloom of toxic algae, wiping out marine snail populations.
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