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Punk’s not dead: Scientists have named a particularly spiky-looking snail after late Clash rocker (and environmentalist) Joe Strummer. Alviniconcha strummeri “lives in clusters around deep-sea hydrothermal vents” and its shell “is a myriad of colors due to chemicals found around the vents, and sometimes features Mohawk-like spikes.”

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