etcetera magazine August 2021

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A Giant Clam Tridacna gigas on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The mass of pale-blue dots around the edge of the mantle (the blanket-like tissue lapping over the shell's rim) are the creature's eyes (really light-sensing organs).

The shell of a Pearly Nautilus (Nautilus pompilius), a cepalopod, rests on a tropical beach

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