Two Females (IMAGE)

University of Michigan

Two Females

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Two female bubble-rafting violet snails, Janthina exigua. Scientists believe the bubble float evolved from an ancestral egg mass. Egg capsules are attached to the underside of the floats.

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Denis Riek

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