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2. True - "ferrous scales", maybe?

Wed Aug 3, 2022, 10:23 AM

Aug 2022

But I have to admit, it does look unusually bad-ass for a snail, in a submerged Game Of Thrones kind of way.

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Meet The Sea Pangolin: A Vanishingly Rare Thermal-Vent Snail With Iron Scales [View all] hatrack Aug 2022 OP

So the scales are made of iron sulfide, not metallic iron ... eppur_se_muova Aug 2022 #1

True - "ferrous scales", maybe? hatrack Aug 2022 #2