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Newly discovered Temburong snail species named after Greta Thunberg


Craspedotropis gretathunbergae. PHOTO: PIERRE ESCOUBAS


BY Aziz Idris

Seventeen-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg garnered worldwide fame and a Nobel Prize nomination for her fight against the effects of climate change.

That fight also earned Greta something else – a namesake for a newly identified species of micro snail species found in the Temburong District.

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