Opisthostoma vermiculum Reuben Clements/World Wildlife Fund for Nature-Malaysia
The world of slugs and snails is a grotesque circus of fever-dream horrors and biological marvels. Join Robert and Christian for a six-species dive into their life cycles of slime, iron plating, deadly neurotoxins and more.
Gastropods Discussed in This Episode:
The Scaly Foot Gastropod
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Ghost Slug -- Selenochlamys ysbryda
Photo courtesy of Ben Rowson
Geography cone (Conus geographus)
Auscape/UIG via Getty Images
Opisthostoma vermiculum
Reuben Clements/World Wildlife Fund for Nature-Malaysia
Blue Dragon, Glaucus atlanticus washed up on the beach of Moreton Island Australia
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The rich green color of the photosynthesizing sea slug, Elysia chlorotica, helps to camouflage it on the ocean floor.
Photo by Patrick Krug
Moon Snail on sand - New Caledonia.
David Massemin/Getty Images
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