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Tusk Shell Hermit Crab

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Tusk Shell Hermit Crabs! This tiny, deep water little dudes evolved cone shaped claws so they can seal themselves into the long shells discarded from the mollusk, Scaphopoda. Interior illustration for SPIRALS IN TIME, by Dr. Helen Scales, Bloomsbury Publishing. Woot!

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These little guys are kind of cute ! I really like your drawings of exotic sealife, they're pretty and, well, exotic.