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21.05.2008
Sea Slugs of the Day

National Geographic serves up some good-lookin' nudibranchs:

The photo's by David Doubilet, and the whole gallery's here. Some fun morsels in the accompanying story, too: "A few make their own poisons, but most pilfer from the foods they eat. Species that dine on toxic sponges, for example, alter and store the irritating compounds in their bodies and secrete them from skin cells or glands when disturbed." Neat trick, that.

--Bradford Plumer

Posted: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 6:51 PM with 5 comment(s)

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bcbaird said:

Those things always creep me out.  The free-swimming ones?  Even more so.

May 21, 2008 2:26 PM

adaglas said:

I didn't know nature used Play-Doh.  Neat.

May 21, 2008 3:32 PM

liberal reformer said:

Fascinating creatures. Thanks, Bradford, for this excellent post and thanks to you and Dayo and the others at TNR who make E&E such a great feature.

May 21, 2008 7:40 PM

mjmckay said:

heh heh he said Nudi

May 21, 2008 8:11 PM

bigfish said:

Thanks for another articles on something that I didn't know was interesting!  Thanks!

Anyone else want one just to see what they look like under a black light?

May 22, 2008 12:46 PM