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Warming waters bring a stinging sea slug to Spain’s coasts

The Seattle Times 29 Aug 2025
The Mediterranean is among the fastest-warming bodies of water in the world, and the arrival of these tiny terrors is raising concern across Spain ... .
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‘We Are All Shocked’: Warming Waters Bring a Stinging Sea Slug to Spain’s Coasts

New York Times 28 Aug 2025
The blue dragons, which pack a ferocious sting, have led to several beach closures. Experts say it’s a worrying sign of the warming of the Mediterranean ... .
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Beaches Shut as Venomous ‘Blue Dragon’ Sea Slugs Surge

The Daily Beast 22 Aug 2025
Dangerous sea slugs have forced the closure of a popular stretch of coast following multiple sightings of the pair of alien-like creatures, which can “burn” human skin ...Contact with this sea animal ...
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Blue dragon sea slugs with venomous sting are closing Spain

Yahoo Daily News 22 Aug 2025
These small but mighty creatures are closing beaches in southeastern Spain due to their venomous sting. .
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The Sea Slug Defying Biological Orthodoxy

The Atlantic 23 Jul 2025
This week, a friend sent me our horoscope—we’re both Gemini—from Seven Days, a beloved Vermont weekly, because, improbably, it was about the sea slug I’d been telling her about just days before.
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Deadly Blue Dragon sea slugs wash up on Phuket beach

Straits Times 11 Jul 2025
Tourists and locals are warned against touching the beautiful yet venomous creatures ....
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Leaf sheep: the adorable sea slug that looks like a tiny succulent and can photosynthesize

Boing Boing 26 Jun 2025
By alif_abdulrahman - Costasiella Kuroshimae, CC BY-SA 2.0, https.//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41894580. The post Leaf sheep. the adorable sea slug that looks like a tiny succulent and can photosynthesize appeared first on Boing Boing ... .
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Weird sea slug turns into living solar panel by stealing algae’s sunlight powers

Interesting Engineering 26 Jun 2025
At first glance, the lettuce sea slug (Elysia crispata) looks like a leafy underwater alien ... In a new study, researchers from Harvard took a closer look at how the lettuce sea slug preserves and uses these stolen chloroplasts.
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Green Seaweed Replaces Seagrass, But Sea Slugs Pose New Threats (FAU - Florida Atlantic University)

Public Technologies 11 Jun 2025
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