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It's a new type of sea slug. Talk about an anticlimax.
A slight variant on a type of known sea slug that's a little more north than usual, at that.
And there's a hundred different sea slugs surrounding the country as well. Hard to imagine news that deserved this headline less, really.
Hey, this kind of thing kept Darwin in business for decades.
"Look, a new beetle!!"
These days, though, we know that for every type of beetle there is, there is a species of parasitic wasp that exclusively targets it.