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Very interesting.

1 posted on 11/08/2003 5:52:34 AM PST by visualops

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To: PatrickHenry

Interesting environmental adaptation.

2 posted on 11/08/2003 5:54:02 AM PST by visualops (Liberty is both the plan of Heaven for humanity, and the best hope for progress here on Earth-G.W.B.)

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To: *crevo_list; PatrickHenry

Ironic snail ping!

3 posted on 11/08/2003 5:57:21 AM PST by VadeRetro

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5 posted on 11/08/2003 6:03:44 AM PST by P.O.E.

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To: visualops

Bump

6 posted on 11/08/2003 6:12:14 AM PST by Aracelis

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To: visualops

The so-far unnamed snail lives a sedentary life at the base of the black smokers

Anyone have any good name suggestions?

For the snail, that is. ;^)

7 posted on 11/08/2003 6:17:53 AM PST by Teacher317

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To: visualops

Armor-plated-gastropod bump!

11 posted on 11/08/2003 6:34:09 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)

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To: visualops

Download a 1.3 MB pdf file with pictures and phylogenetic tree

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/302/5647/1007/DC1

why not name it Gastropoda Patton

13 posted on 11/08/2003 7:18:48 AM PST by AdmSmith

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To: visualops

I thought this was another 'coral snale' thread...

14 posted on 11/08/2003 7:27:01 AM PST by boris (The deadliest Weapon of Mass Destruction in History is a Leftist With a Word Processor)

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To: visualops

imbricating scale-shaped iron sclerites

Ummmmm, imbricating sclerites!

15 posted on 11/08/2003 7:29:54 AM PST by aruanan

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To: visualops

> Swedish Museum of Natural History