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Studying a Softball-sized Snail with a Pregnant Foot

Snails living on and around hydrothermal chimneys in complete darkness provide excellent material for startling scientific discoveries (Photo taken by ROV Jason II, Dr. Charles Fisher, Chief Scientist)

By Kyle Reynolds, Benthic Ecology Lab

   Can you imagine being pregnant in your foot?  That’s just one of the fascinating things I discovered about the snail species I studied for my thesis.  I studied animals at hydrothermal vents (seafloor volcanoes) and the adaptations they’ve made that help them cope with their harsh environments.  Specifically, I looked at two species of snails thatlive about 1.5 miles deep in the southwestern Pacific at a hydrothermal vent system near Tonga and Fiji.

    These snails get as big as softballs when full-grown and have evolved many ways to deal with life in a chemically toxic volcanic world.  My thesis focused mainly on reproductive adaptations, and I was able to find many of those.  Not only have they wrapped their larvae in protective coatings, they also house them for a short time in a pouch in their foot!  Like I said – pregnant in your foot!

Hangin' at the vent: These black snails and a variety of neighbors make a living in a harsh environment (Photo taken by ROV Jason II, Dr. Charles Fisher, Chief Scientist)








from:
http://mlmlblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/pregnant-foot/

Himalayas

Pictures from: http://www.wisdom-study-abroad.com

Mecca Royal Hotel Clock Tower

The tallest hotel in the world, and the tallest clock tower in the world. The world's largest clock face, and the world's largest building floor area. Floor area= 1,500,000 square metres (16 million square feet)
HEIGHT: 1972 feet.

Waterfalls

Waterfalls

Some beautiful pictures of waterfalls

Sea Level Rise

 

Antarctic Ice Shelf

Photograph by Maria Stenzel

Higher, warmer seas undermine the massive ice shelves that jut out from the Antarctic continent, eroding them from beneath. A series of spectacular ice shelf collapses in recent decades have aggravated sea level rise not by the millions of tons of ice they dispersed into the oceans (that ice was already floating), but by allowing the glaciers they once contained to flow freely into the sea.
                                                                                                                                                National Geographic

Calgary city

Calgary  is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada

Emerald Iceberg

nice view

who can stand in front of that??!!

clean and pure water runs between the the two columns of green trees along a mountin that reaches the clouds

Welcome

welcome to the environmental page. Here you can see different types of environments including natural and urban.