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1 " Molluscs aren’t mathematicians. "
― Helen Scales , Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
2 " Which came first, the mollusc or the shell? "
3 " One of the new species is Alviniconcha strummeri, named as a joint tribute to the research submarine and to Joe Strummer, the lead vocalist and guitarist of the British punk band The Clash. It was a nod to these hard-as-nails snails that live in the most acidic, most sulphur-ridden hydrothermal vents in the Pacific Ocean, close to the islands of Fiji. And like many of the band’s 1970s punk followers, the snails have spiky hairdos in the form of a bristly layer of protein known as the periostracum, which covers their shells. "
