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Since the days of BBC’s original Planet Earth, nature documentaries have brilliantly revealed the bizarreness of life, but the recent behavior of a sea slug observed in a Japanese lab is enough to leave one without words.
Sayaka Mitoh
As strange as birds of paradise dancing and cleaning, as strange as bioluminescent sea life, as strange as base jumping goslings—nothing will make your jaw drop like this video of a sea slug decapitating itself before cruising around as if nothing had happened.
Japanese researcher Sayaka Mitoh discovered that among her university’s extensive collection of sacoglossan sea slugs—the largest in the world—one of the elysia marginata had mysteriously had its head separated from its body.
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Meet the Sea Slugs That Chop Off Their Heads and Then Grow New Bodies
Sayaka Mitoh
As strange as birds of paradise dancing and cleaning, as strange as bioluminescent sea life, as strange as base jumping goslings—nothing will make your jaw drop like this video of a sea slug decapitating itself before cruising around as if nothing had happened.
Japanese researcher Sayaka Mitoh discovered that among her university’s extensive collection of sacoglossan sea slugs—the largest in the world—one of the elysia marginata had mysteriously had its head separated from its body.
Continued below.
Meet the Sea Slugs That Chop Off Their Heads and Then Grow New Bodies
