Remember that strange purple orb deep-sea scientists fought a crab for? It’s revealed itself to be a
Remember that strange purple orb deep-sea scientists fought a crab for? It’s revealed itself to be a possible new species of marine slug, a pleurobranch that feeds off plankton and other microscopic organisms.“On the E/V Nautilus, an exploration ship manned by the not-for-profit Ocean Exploration Trust, the organism’s “ball sort of unfolded into two folds”, said Susan Poulton, a spokesperson for the group, in a call from the ship.“It revealed a foot and rhinophores, which are these ear-like structures, and you see a sort of proboscis come off the back of it,” she said. “That’s when it clearly became a gastropod of some kind.””Photo credits: EVNautilus -- source link
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