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Posted by duddy   September 29, 2015   17710 views

Angustopila dominikae is the only known specimen measuring the astounding 0.86 mm in shell height. That means ten of them could fit into the eye of a large sewing needle at the same time! Until now, the smallest known land snail was a thai species measuring about 0.9 millimeters long. Researchers believe that it probably feeds on microorganisms and may be hermaphroditic. However, because the team didn’t recover any DNA, a lot of uncertainly remains.




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So, they found the shell, but not the snail itself. Not sure what to think of that Undecided
Posted on Sep 29, 2015 by padre
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