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Email: Andrea Rinaldi - rinaldi@unica.it News from The Scientist 2003, 4(1):20031107-02
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Given that hydrothermal vents—geysers on the deep ocean floor emitting mineral compounds that support a thriving ecosystem—were only discovered in 1977, it is perhaps unsurprising that novel organisms showing unique environmental adaptations are regularly reported from expeditions to these areas. In the November 7 Science, Anders Warén and colleagues at the Swedish Museum of Natural History report a gastropod mollusk from black-smoker chimneys in the Indian Ocean with its soft foot covered by a chain mail of imbricating scale-shaped iron sclerites (Science, 302:1007, November 7, 2003).
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