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Cape Hatteras National Seashore
2008 Piping Plover Annual Report

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Lightning whelks are one of the few species of

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Lightning whelks eat about one large clam per month. The whelk pries the clam open with its muscular foot, wedges the clam open with its shell, then eats the soft inside of the clam. Lightning whelk shells, which whorl to the left, wash up on the beach at Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

Last Updated: February 05, 2009 at 09:11 MST