Beach-burrowing beasties may shovel more sand than any other animal on Earth

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Sep 16, 2026, 9:00 am110 pts
At just an inch (2.5 centimeters) long, the sand hoppers skipping across California's Isla Vista Beach at dawn don't exactly look like a force of nature. But a new study reveals that these shrimp-like creatures might be doing more to shape the landscape in which they live than any other animal on Earth.

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