Osamu Miura Collecting Snails (IMAGE)

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Osamu Miura Collecting Snails

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Once in a great while, horn snails fly from one ocean to another attached to or in the bellies of shorebirds.

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Mark Torchin

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