Don't Stop Reaching

by Laurie Search

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Don't Stop Reaching

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Laurie Search

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Photograph - Digital Photography

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San Lorenzo, CA........This was a teeny tiny little baby snail that I thought was so cute! :) Some snail info from www.snail-world.com: Snails belong to the class Gastropoda, a classification that includes land, freshwater and sea snails and slugs. Snails’ ancestors are one of the earliest known types of animals in the world. There is fossil evidence of primitive gastropods dating back to the late Cambrian period; this means that they lived nearly 500 million years ago..........Gastropods are able to adapt to a variety of living conditions and they don’t require large amounts of food. They have been able to continually evolve to survive the conditions around them which many researchers find to be very fascinating..........Gastropods belong to the phylum Mollusca (or Mollusks) a classification of invertebrate animals with soft unsegmented body, sometimes covered with an exoskeleton or shell. This phylum, Mollusca, includes animals like squids, octopuses, clams and cuttlefishes among others..........Snails and slugs are both Gastropods, therefore they are closely related, regardless the fact that slugs lack a protective shell..........You will find that there aren’t any shortages of snails around the world. In fact, Gastropods range second, only behind insects when it comes to the number of named species. As an obvious result of this, they are found in many locations, living in a very diverse type of habitats and even having distinctive feeding habits.

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February 1st, 2015

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