These Fingernail-Sized Animals Are Moving Astonishing Amounts of California Beach Sand
Megalorchestia corniculataA California beach can be reshaped overnight by creatures barely the size of a fingernail, with sand hoppers digging up to 110 pounds of sand per meter of shoreline each day. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara found that sand hoppers, tiny crustaceans that eat washed-up kelp, excavate extraordinary quantities of beach sand. Their study, published [...]
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