Earth/Environment

So much for the man-sized snail, plus Indonesia’s quake risk, overheated reefs and more in this week’s news

ACTUALLY TINY It turns out this 2-meter-long snail fossil was probably made by the corkscrew path of an eensy threadworm. Shell: PaulDTaylor/Wikimedia Commons; Figure: dem10/iStockphoto
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