{"id":415318,"date":"2026-02-08T22:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/415318\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T22:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:49:09","slug":"rare-alien-like-sea-creature-found-in-devon-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/415318\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare &#8216;alien-like&#8217; sea creature found in Devon waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Five-year-old Charley and his dad Chris, who were new to the BioBlitz Battle group, said they initially thought the creature was &#8220;seaweed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If it wasn&#8217;t for my son Charley chasing after a large crab, we wouldn&#8217;t have found it,&#8221; Chris said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MBA said the species could grow up to 40cm (15.7in) long, weigh up to 380g (13.4oz) and were significantly larger than the more common Spotted sea hare (Aplysia punctata).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Russell said they found two of the sea slugs during the same session and while the team and children were excited, the parents were a &#8220;bit grossed out&#8221; because it looked &#8220;a bit weird&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When most people think of a slug, they think of a garden slug which are kind of boring, people know what those are and see them all the time, but this is a sea slug that is quite a unique thing to see,&#8221; Russel said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five-year-old Charley and his dad Chris, who were new to the BioBlitz Battle group, said they initially thought&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-415318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}