Saturday, February 4, 2012

The one that got away!

February 21, 2010 by  
Filed under Featured, Wild Things

Your average bi-valve spends most of its life partially buried in the seabed, waiting to filter fine particles of food from water currents. A pretty low-key existence, but it’s a living. Whereas the predatory sand snail Polinices sordidus can go right over the top!  They climb onto other molluscs to rasp a perfectly neat hole [...]