{"id":539054,"date":"2026-04-19T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539054\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T07:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:49:08","slug":"beautiful-and-rare-fire-tip-sea-slug-spotted-in-devon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539054\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful and rare fire tip sea slug spotted in Devon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sea slug, about 3cm long and fully grown, lives among red seaweeds and feeds on algae. Its fiery reds, oranges and purples help it blend into its surroundings, rather than stand out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Ever since I&#8217;ve been going, I&#8217;ve missed out on that one, and I&#8217;m probably never gonna see another one,&#8221; said Taylor-Bruce. &#8220;And then, lo and behold, right there in front of me, was, one of these fire tip sea slugs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This species in particular, I&#8217;ve never seen anything like it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sea slug, about 3cm long and fully grown, lives among red seaweeds and feeds on algae. Its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-539054","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\/539054","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=539054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}