Recent Examples on the WebThe team also discovered six more species of sea slug.—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2024 The blue dragon sea slug could be an adorable visitor for spring break beachgoers — but touching them results in a painful sting.—Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2024 Despite its squishy stature, the sea slug Pleurobranchaea californica is a killer.—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 17 May 2013 But in studies of organisms as diverse as crustaceans, sea slugs and now possibly snakes, researchers are finding that interactions with neuromodulators and other chemicals can modulate the activity that a circuit evokes, leading the same networks of cells to produce markedly different behaviors.—Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024 Incidentally, these are the same molecules, genes, and neuronal pathways modulated when a sea slug learns to avoid being shocked by a researcher—i.e., not free will.—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 12 Nov. 2023 Giant groupers flourish among the rocks, a psychedelic purple nudibranch sea slug clings to an outcrop, and a pair of rays skate along the undisturbed sandy bottom.—Ilan Ben Zion, ajc, 14 Nov. 2022 Mitoh actually observed this behavior in several individuals from two different species of sacoglossan sea slug.—Matt Simon, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021 Scientists had thought that such a relatively large animal — one of the sea slug species can grow to 6 inches (15 centimeters) long — couldn’t survive without a heart to pump blood and nutrients to the brain, said Canadian marine biologist Susan Anthony, who wasn’t part of the study.—NBC News, 8 Mar. 2021
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