Penn biologists demonstrate that size matters... in snail shells

Friday, March 27, 2009 - 11:58 in Biology & Nature

A team of biologists at the University of Pennsylvania has completed a research study begun in 1915 and determined that a snail making its home in the northwest Atlantic Ocean around Mount Desert Island, Me., has experienced a dramatic increase in the size of its shell during less than a century, providing a clear illustration of how fast and effectively change can occur...

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