Natural History Wanderings

The New York Times reports

Scientists discovered a species off the Alabama coast that is part of group of mussels never before seen at such shallow depths.

Vadumodiolus teredinicola, a new species, was discovered in much shallower waters than other members of the group of mussels it belongs to.

Read more and see photos at A New Creature Emerges From a Forest Drowned by the Gulf of Mexico