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City-size cold-volcano comet erupts into a glowing cosmic 'snail shell'

Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, a city-sized icy body that orbits the Sun at roughly 6 astronomical units, is known for sudden outbursts that can produce a glowing coma with a spiral, ...

The world's largest snail is nearly one meter long and almost as heavy as a three-year-old child

A pet snail in West Sussex once stunned record keepers with a 27.3cm shell, yet ocean species grow far larger. So which snail truly claims the crown for size?
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City-size, cold-volcano comet transforms into a glowing 'snail shell' after major explosive outburst

Following a massive cryovolcanic eruption, the mysterious Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has been morphed into a giant spiral and is now shining 100 times brighter than normal.
Peninsula Daily News on MSN

Clallam County beaches closed to shellfish harvesting

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County beaches have been closed for recreational shellfish harvesting for all species due to high paralytic shellfish poison levels in samples sent to the state Department of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Once Thought This Snail Was Extinct. But a Surprising Discovery and Decade-Long Conservation Effort Revived the Species

In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago ...