Researchers discover sea slugs that stab each other in the head after copulation (w/ Video)

Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 12:00 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org) —A trio of researchers, two from Australia and one from Germany has discovered a new kind of sea slug that lives on the Great Barrier Reef—a kind that also stab each other in the head after copulating. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, the team describes how they found the new slug and its unique mating style.

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