This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The scaly-foot gastropod, aka scaly-foot snail, sea pangolin, or volcano snail, is a snail species that dwells among deep-sea hydrothermal-vents in the Indian Ocean. They can be found at depths of up to 1.73+ miles. As deep as these critters dwell, they are still subjected to human-based threats, such as […]

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