A new snail species discovered in South Sumatra shows how limestone habitats hide unique and vulnerable wildlife.

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Hermit crabs are generally awesome. They use snail shells, and sometime shells of other mollsucs, to protect their non-skeletonized squishy backends. Some are even adapted to live in burrows coral, ...