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Surprising science news includes risks to conch shells, flavors from flowers, and confirmation of new moon craters and shark behaviors.
Washington, Apr 7 (Prensa Latina) Horse conchs, one of the biggest in the world, are at risk of extinction due to a century of unregulated harvesting of their gigantic seashell, a research revealed Thursday. In the American scientific journal PLUS ONE, the authors warned that the striking species that inhibit in the Gulf of Mexico, could be at risk of extinction, while the one that inhabits in Florida lives a shorter lifespan and reproduces later than expected.
One of the world’s biggest sea snails at risk of extinction
A century of unregulated harvesting for its gigantic shell has left the horse conch far more vulnerable than scientists realized.