Humble sea slugs turn self-defense into art


	Humble sea slugs turn self-defense into art
einbar
9-21-2008 1:05 AM
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einbar says:
David Doubilet fantastic Photography !!

There are over 3,000 known species of nudibranchs
see more in nationalgeographic site
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5e42c3b6-3452-4ef2-a05f-25d0ed10f14d/8D32DC35-B51C-4F76-B221-7325A9DDA8CA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibranchs/holland-text/1" href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibranchs/holland-text/1" style="font-size: 11px;">ngm.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibranchs/holland-text/1"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ngm.nationalgeographic.com/img/F10979A9-2095-42A1-A3B6-35AC9097A539" alt="Orange and green nudibranchs, Nembrotha kubaryana" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibranchs/holland-text/1"><H3 class="title">Toxic nudibranchs—soft, seagoing slugs—produce a brilliant defense</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibranchs/holland-text/1">Nudibranchs crawl through life as slick and naked as a newborn. Snail kin whose ancestors shrugged off the shell millions of years ago, they are just skin, muscle, and organs sliding on trails of slime across ocean floors and coral heads the world over.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://pictopia.com/perl/ptp/natgeo?photo_name=1162564" href="http://pictopia.com/perl/ptp/natgeo?photo_name=1162564" style="font-size: 11px;">pictopia.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pictopia.com/perl/ptp/natgeo?photo_name=1162564"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/pictopia.com/img/A03F2F91-1FED-42FA-88D0-675CC620A9E6" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibranchs/holland-text/2" href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibranchs/holland-text/2" style="font-size: 11px;">ngm.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibranchs/holland-text/2">Nudibranchs are blind 
to their own beauty, their 
tiny eyes discerning little 
more than light and dark. 
Instead the animals smell, 
taste, and feel their world 
using head-mounted sensory 
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and even the known ones are elusive. Most live 
no more than a year and then disappear without 
a trace, their boneless, shell-less bodies leaving 
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