Creature

Looks like a chiton. I think you're right. The "white ridges" are apparently the remains of the articulated shell plates that normally cover it. This one seems to correspond to photos of the "gumboot" chiton.

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Looks like a chiton.

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I found this animal washed up on the beach. A hard top with protruding white shell-like ridges. A soft "foot". snailtop.jpg snailfoot.jpg

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"Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals: so that, unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape - he is a shaper of the landscape." -Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man

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... underneath, the bottom of the ocean and feed on the mud of the seafloor. Scientists haven’t yet worked out how they are such a successful deep-sea creature. http://www.designswan.com/archives/10-weird-looking-animal-in-the-world.html When I see organisms like this I am automatically skeptical as ...

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