Sea Snail Evolution Experiment
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•Amazing 30-Year Experiment Shows Evolution Unfolding in Slow Motion
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The rough periwinkle ( Littorina saxatilis) is a small species of sea snail that is common to shores around the North Atlantic Ocean .
A toxic algae bloom in 1988 wiped out large portions of the snail populations in Sweden 's Koster Islands .
In 1992 , Kerstin Johannesson re-introduced 700 snails to a skerry whose snail population had been eliminated.
She transplanted snails with a different 'ecotype' to see if they would evolve the traits of the original skerry inhabitants.
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