News tagged with marine snails
Hitchhiking snails fly from ocean to ocean
Smithsonian scientists and colleagues report that snails successfully crossed Central America, long considered an impenetrable barrier to marine organisms, twice in the past million years -- both times probably ...
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Marine snails get a metabolism boost
Most of us wouldn't consider slow-moving snails to be high-metabolism creatures. But at one point in the distant past, snail metabolism sped up, says a new study of marine snails in the journal Paleobiology.
May 03, 2011 |
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Self-defense strategies of moss: Chemists discover what spoils the appetite of slugs
Slugs are every gardener's enemy: They can destroy overnight, what he has sown and looked after lovingly. But snails don't like all plants in the same way - they shun moss. Why is that so?
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Small sea snail damaging world's coral reefs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Victoria University research has found that a small sea snail may be causing significant damage to coral reefs in the Pacific, even more so than climate change or coral bleaching.
May 28, 2010 |
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Food choices and location influence California sea otter exposure to disease
Sea otters living along the central California coast risk higher exposure to disease-causing parasites as a consequence of the food they eat and where they feed.
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Jan 19, 2009 |
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