Iron-Armored Deepsea Scaly-Foot Snails - Most Metal Mollusk | Animals EXPLAINED

The list of armored animals that live on this planet and have ever lived on this planet is lengthy and populated with easily some of the coolest, crustiest, most impenetrable beasts to ever live. They come from every limb on the tree of life. We got mammals, we got dinosaurs, we got archosaurs, crocodilians, lizards, millipedes, crustaceans, the water-skeletoned echinoderms, turtles, and all kinds of molluscs. None have ever had metal in their armor, at least as far as we know – that is, except for one teeny snail marooned on the bottom of the Indian ocean – the Scaly-Foot Snail, and it may just be the most metal animal ever. __________________________________________________________________ ✅ PATREON ✅ ✅ STICKERS & SHIRTS ✅ ✅Facebook: ✅Twitter: ✅Instagram: @edgeonthetrail ✅ MUSIC ✅ “EDGE Theme” - Taung Child / Reuben Cozens “Carni Jamm” - Carnivores Cityscape “Ominous Beings” - Karl Casey “Stranded on Europa” - Karl Casey “The Shape” - Karl Casey “The Visitor” - Karl Casey “They Came From Below” - Karl Casey __________________________________________________________________ If I've used something on my video that you don't want me to use, PLEASE EMAIL ME first before flagging a video, I'm very reasonable and will take the video down to replace whatever image or video belongs to you. Email: expeditiondiscoveryguild@ __________________________________________________________________ RESEARCH Chen, C., Copley, J. T., Linse, K., Rogers, A. D., & Sigwart, J. D. (2015). The heart of a dragon: 3D anatomical reconstruction of the 'scaly-foot gastropod' (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Neomphalina) reveals its extraordinary circulatory system. Frontiers in zoology, 12, 13. Nakamura K, Watanabe H, Miyazaki J, Takai K, Kawagucci S, et al. (2012) Discovery of New Hydrothermal Activity and Chemosynthetic Fauna on the Central Indian Ridge at 18°–20°S. PLOS ONE 7(3): e32965. __________________________________________________________________ Hashtags - #Deepsea #Thalassophobia __________________________________________________________________