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Hitchhiking the River
A Tale of Survival
Friday, August 5, 2011
Consider for a moment - the freshwater mussel....
At first glance we have a lump of fleshy stuff with no moving parts, surrounded by two drab shells that spends its life underwater half buried in the muck...