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'Micro snails' we scraped from sidewalk cracks help unlock details of ancient earth's biological evolution

  • Written by Matthew Brown, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University
A live _Padaungiella lageniformis_ wiggles its pseudopods.Daniel J. G. Lahr, CC BY-ND

Every step you take, you’re likely walking on a world of unseen and undescribed microbial diversity. And you don’t need to head out into nature to find these usually unnoticed microscopic organisms.

Asbiologists, we know this firsthand. A meetup for...

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