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Verglas

A frozen ocean moon circling a giant planet, sealed under a kilometres-thick ice shell that blocks nearly all sunlight. Tidal flexing keeps a dark, salty sea liquid beneath the ice, warmed and fed by mineral-rich vents on the seabed. Gravity is light and the cold water oxygen-poor, so life clings to the under-ice ceiling above and the vent fields far below.

Ice Limpet

Evo 1GastropodEats plantsSurface

Clamps to the ice ceiling with a broad foot, grazing the chemosynthetic frost-mats by touch.

suction foot4 cmbiofilm grazerice-clinging
Size
4 cm
Diet
biofilm grazer
Habitat
under-ice ceiling
Moves by
gliding
🐌Ice LimpetEvo 1
  • resilient
  • strained
  • fragile
  • β˜… canon
  • 🧬 hybrid
  • πŸ’€ extinct
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Climate

Resources & space

Predators & life

Habitat & extremes

Mate Ice Limpet with another branch of the same lineage to make a hybrid.