Overview
Many organisms in nature have their unique means of protecting themselves. Some organisms have evolved into sensitive senses and can quickly evacuate before encountering danger; others have evolved into hard shells that cannot be easily broken by any predator.
And among these shelled creatures, the most common one is undoubtedly snails. Whenever rains over and over, we can easily find this kind of creature traveling with a thick shell on the roadside or in the gaps in bricks and tiles.
However, for us humans, the "protective shell" that snails are proud of is still very fragile. Most of the time, we can easily crush it with our hands.
But what many people don’t know is that there is such a snail in nature. It is said that its shell cannot even penetrate easily. Who is this snail sacred?
Snail on the seabed
The name of this snail is Scale horn tummy snail . Although the scale horn tummy snail is a type of snail, it is very obvious in appearance than most snails. The appearance of this creature is very ugly. Under the gray shell, there is a dense foot structure, which looks very strong Cthulhu style.
This snail was first discovered at the beginning of this century, and the place where they live is even more jaw-dropping. According to experts, they are this magical creature found more than 2,000 meters below the sea surface of the Indian Ocean .
This organism is generally distributed in the hydrothermal vents in the ocean, and basically does not move actively. Researchers even thought that snails with scales, horns, and abdomen are just ordinary stones at the beginning.
scale horn galifoot snail feeds on the tiny microorganisms in the ocean. These microorganisms are invisible to our human eyes. Because their own travel speed is extremely slow and they basically have no ability to move, this snail has formed an extremely hard shell in evolution in order to protect itself.
Scale horn snail hard shell
After experts discovered this creature, they immediately conducted a series of research and investigations on it. Finally, they unexpectedly discovered that the hardness of the shell of snails is unique in nature. , and They have 3 layers of shells containing a large amount of iron.
This phenomenon is basically impossible to occur in biosphere , so the scale-horned and gabbro-legged snail has naturally become the only one discovered in the world iron armor type creature .
The hardness of metal is simply a dimensionality reduction blow compared to the substances contained in other animals in nature. After being in danger, the scale-horned snail only needs to shrink its entire body into its shell and can basically escape any predator.
Scale horn snails have a large amount of iron material, and there is a perfect gap between the three shells, which can maximize the force removal.
What is even more surprising is that the shell of this snail actually has a lot of magnetic . In other words, if we hold the magnet and sway it, it is very likely that its shell will be absorbed onto the magnet. Such a unique body structure as
is unique in nature, and experts have also conducted detailed analysis and investigation of the reasons for its iron shell.
Where does the iron shell come from?
experts believe that the shell of this creature comes from the seabed, because we know that the creatures in our cognition are absolutely impossible to be born to cover a large amount of iron matter on their bodies, so the formation of this snail's thick iron armor has a clear relationship with the underwater environment in which they live.
There is a large amount of iron material gushing out from the seabed of the Indian Ocean. After these substances adhere to the surface of organisms in tiny particles, they invisibly form a hard shell.
Scale-horned snails are not moving at ordinary times, so iron matter can easily accumulate in large quantities on them, eventually forming a hard shell that protects the scale-horned snails.
Although these shells are not born, this iron-armored creature is still a strange flower in nature. In relevant countries led by the United States, a series of research has been conducted on the price structure of this creature. It is hoped that in the future, the shell of the scale-horned snail can be used on military equipment such as armored vehicle or body armor wardrobe .
bulletproof iron armor
In the current era, the bulletproof vest technology has been relatively mature, but bulletproof vests are generally targeted, and many small bulletproof vests have no way to kill large-caliber bullets.
The iron armor covered by the snails with scale horns is actually very thin, but it gives them protection ability that does not match their thickness. The reason behind this phenomenon is also one of the biggest problems that American military scientists want to overcome. If the research is successful, then it is very likely that our human society will have a very strong bulletproof and very light armored bulletproof vest, which can undoubtedly be called a good thing.
In fact, this is not the first time that we humans have learned skills from creatures in nature.
At present, many substances in society have the shadow of animals. The sound wave communication between bat and dolphin prompted people to think of the idea of radar , and many animal-like human exoskeletons have also been put into production and use recently.
To a certain extent, the evolution of organisms has also helped our human society to a more harmonious and more developed level.
Conclusion
Scale-horned snail This creature was discovered in 2001, but because its population is too small, it did not receive reasonable attention after its discovery. At present, this creature has been listed as an endangered species in the red list, and the number of the entire population continues to decline at an almost irreversible rate, which is actually significantly related to our human energy production and deep-sea mining.
It is precisely because of our various behaviors that destroy their habitats, causing the entire scaly horned snail race to fall into crisis.
In order to protect this magical species, we should indeed pay attention to the protection of the environment in our daily lives, so that biological resources can continue with human civilization.
