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Your Weekly Attenborough: Palaina attenboroughi

It should have been their big break. By all rights, the crown was theirs, won with years of blood, sweat and slime. Maybe, in some far-distant astral plane where justice matters, they're the rightful victors.But the history books are closed now. Palaina attenboroughi, the second snail to be named after David Attenborough in 2017, was a murmur that never became a shout.The fame, the media frenzy, the glamour shots — the spoils of victory are all too obvious. And Attenborougha
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