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Day 30 of posting cute creatures we found on our field trip:
Turkish snail (Helix lucorum) is a quite common species in Balkans, but we aren’t certain whether it’s native or not. It probably came here from Turkey with the Ottomans and made itself very comfortable.
This is a very friendly snail. My professor likes to call it “chocolate snail” because of its brown coloration. As all Helix species, it’s very voracious, so it can be a pest in some areas, but it’s also edible. Some people have this snail as a pet that is very easy to keep and can live for over 20 years!
Day 48 of posting cute creatures we found on our field trip:
Today’s creature is so rare and understudied that it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia article:
Meet Dinarica pouzolzii the rarest terrestrial snail in Europe. It’s native only to western Balkans and only in regions where soil is very rich in calcium. It likes to hang out near caves. And that’s all we know about it.
But we found this one a friend!
And the second we put them on the ground…
They began kissing!
This is how snails start their mating ritual. We accidentally found snailmates (snail soulmates) of the rarest snail species in the region. Imagine the joy!
A teensy bit late for #fossilfriday in my own timezone but it's not too late for some of you! Here's a part of my collection of actual fossils; some from where i grew up here in Buskerud, Norway, and some are from the Jurassic Coast, England. First up, there's the two ammonites...or bivalvs?...or..mollusks.. that i found while on a fossil trip when in 2007, from the Jurassic Coast, which is a famously fossil rich coastline in England, UK. The rest of the fossils are from Norway, where the majority of fossils you can find are mollusks of various forms, and some trace fossils of early sea creatures. The largest fossil found here I believe was a 0.3 - 1 meter long eurypterid, or seascorpion as they're known as (tho icthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and a pliosaur dubbed "predator x" and other Jurassic marine life has been found on the Norweian governed part of Svalbard). These mollusks i excavated myself as a child from rocks right outside my yard with a regular hammer or other rocks. Some i could just poke right out of the rock. I don't have that much info on these things cause i haven't really looked into these things in the likes of 12 years🤷♂️ #fossil #fossils #mollusks #invertebrates #tgif #amateurpaleontologist #jurassiccoast #norwegianpaleontoligy https://www.instagram.com/p/B5wKYT3lGSA/?igshid=1x6jrwy8v2nah
bug haters will be like "thanks i hate it" and then show you a picture of the cutest animal you've ever seen
two snails on my hand <3
My addition (for now) to the hermitcraft s10 nonsense