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Survival Of The Sluggish: Scientists Find An Upside To A Low Metabolism

A study of 5 million years of mollusks suggests that laziness could be a good survival strategy: species that have gone extinct had higher metabolic rates than the ones that exist today.
<em>Arcinella cornuta</em> was included in a new study of fossil and extant bivalves and gastropods in the Atlantic Ocean. Researchers found that laziness might be a fruitful strategy for species survival.

New research suggests one effective evolutionary strategy: be lazy.

Species of mollusks that are now extinct had higher metabolic rates than the species that exist today, scientists announced in a paper published this week in .

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