What makes your home “special”? Check out this story about a hermit crab making the most of their home “A House for Hermit Crab” by Eric Carle and enacted with colorful crafts made by Shepherd.

If you’re a larvacean, you work constantly without a break to save the planet. Larvaceans are tiny invertebrates that are always filtering food – or, microplastics – from the sea. They build a system around their body with mucus that comes out of their heads. Once the cozy “snot house” is clogged the larvaceans shed it and it will drop it to the ocean floor.

The disposed of outer house – made of carbon – is useful even when if falls to the seafloor. These abandoned homes will absorb energy from the atmosphere and circulate it back to stabilize the planet. Any organism that can work to stabilize our atmosphere is a complete superhero these days – even if “snot’s your house”.

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