Did you ever wonder? Is it just a coincidence that all of these shells have almost perfectly round holes in them, in almost exactly the same place? Hmmm....we think not. Given the size and were scraped/drilled by a moon snail. a predator and consumes mostly bivalves. After locating its prey, the snail digs down into the moon snail then turns the bivalve until the umbo toward its mouth. With the bivalve secure, the snail secretes an acid that weakens the shell. like structure that is covered with tiny teeth, and begins to scrape/drill away at the weakened additional acid secretions and eventually, in a process that can take several hours, the moon snail breaks into the bivalve. Still clutching its prey, the snail extends its proboscis - a mouth-like tube - into the freshly drilled hole and slurps the bivalve out. Facebook.com/NJBeachLife
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