Alien world right here on Earth
Nov. 11th, 2003 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avramThanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bruceb for the link to this National Geographic story about an armored sea snail. In addition to the shell that most snails have, this one’s also got magnetic iron scales covering its underbody and foot. As with so many weird creatures, this was discovered in a deep-sea hydrothermal vent, a hostile alien environment we don’t have to go into space to find. The photo of the as-yet-unnamed beastie looks a whole lot like something out of Farscape.
bruceb for the link to this National Geographic story about an armored sea snail. In addition to the shell that most snails have, this one’s also got magnetic iron scales covering its underbody and foot. As with so many weird creatures, this was discovered in a deep-sea hydrothermal vent, a hostile alien environment we don’t have to go into space to find. The photo of the as-yet-unnamed beastie looks a whole lot like something out of Farscape.