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Why do molluscs have a soft body?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

When they first appeared, they all had a hard shell to protect them, as they evolved and natural selection removed some of their relatives, this trait was removed and (like octopodes and squid) the shell became a vestigial structure and was removed.

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