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Snails that don't eat food and have iron shells! Threatened by deep sea mining
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy” Hamlet (Act 1, Scene 5).
#Biology #Conservation #Extinction #DeepSeaMining

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/celebrate-endangered-species-day-meet-the-scaly-foot-snail-the-most-metal-animal-in-the-world/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TIS_051526&utm_term=endangered%20scaly-foot%20snail&_kx=VisLG0kqBDd2CULr-mKgR5bMUlllZouh9hJnA_VvWCZ2nPFqqBM9K9jToYR9SmgV.WEer5A

Scientific American

To celebrate Endangered Species Day, meet the scaly-foot snail, the most metal animal in the world

This snail became the first animal living on deep-sea hydrothermal vents to be added to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species—it also turns poisonous sulfur into armor