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Your last Snail Mail ☹

Your last snail mail is on your screens.
Sit back, relax and enjoy reading about the stress we went through in the last two days to pull our project together.


Our snails are back in the sea where they belong, our experiment station is all cleaned up, and now it’s down to the real business… making sense of all the data we have collected! Everyone here has their head buried in their laptops analysing, typing, reading and editing.

To conclude our research, sea snails are not to be underestimated! We have seen that these little shnails are very resilient to anthropogenic pressures like light and plastic pollution, they have a very good survival rate due to their ability to hide in their shells and wait out the disturbance! It seems that if the world ends there’ll only be the snails and cockroaches left.
With just a few hours to go to hand in the final report, late nights were had by all, and it doesn’t end there. As soon as the report is in, we have to switch our focus to making a documentary even Sir David Attenborough would be proud to voiceover. Not to mention our presentation too!

To take our minds off the numbers, we took a break to appreciate the beautiful sunset that we’re so lucky to have experienced most days.
From all of us on Team Snailed It!...
We’d like to thank you, the readers for keeping up with us, to our professors who answered all the questions we threw at them, and to our fellow students who made us laugh when we wanted to crawl into our shells and cry.
We’ll leave you all with a little video of the team.


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