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Marine snails know how to budget their housing costs

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2017-09-22

For nearly 50 years, researchers have been stumped as to why sea shells from warm tropical waters are comparatively larger than their cold water relatives. New research, led by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE) at James Cook University in Australia with researchers at British Antarctic Survey, suggests that it all comes down to 'housing cost.'

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https://phys.org/news/2017-09-marine-snails-housing.html