Harry is a U.K.-based staff writer at Live Science. He studied Marine Biology at the University of Exeter (Penryn campus) and after graduating started his own blog site 'Marine Madness,' which he continues to run with other ocean enthusiasts. He is also interested in evolution, climate change, robots, space exploration, environmental conservation and anything that's been fossilized. When not at work he can be found watching sci-fi films, playing old Pokemon games or running (probably slower than
Researchers have discovered a new species of bright-yellow"margarita" snail hiding in plain sight on a coral reef in the Florida Keys. The tiny invertebrate, which lacks a traditional snail shell, can shoot out toxic mucus webs.
C. margarita grows to around 0.4 inches and uses its toxic mucus webs to catch plankton, algae and detritus. These snails spend their entire lives anchored to the same spot of the reef and rely on ocean currents to waft food past their mucus webs. The new species are closely related to the Spider-Man snail, Thylacodes vandyensis, which was discovered in the Florida Keys by Bieler and his team in 2017. As its name suggests, T. vandyensis also shoots out chemically enriched mucus webs.
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