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If you liked this story, share it with other people. Study lead author Ho-Yeung Chan first spotted the sea slug during a recreational dive in the coastal waters of Keelung, northern Taiwan, in 2019.

A sea slug smaller than a sesame seed has turned up in Taiwan’s coastal waters — and it’s so tiny and unusual that scientists realized they had discovered a completely new species. Named Thecacera ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two 'Thecacera sesama' feeding on a bryozoan. "Taiwanese divers call it 'sesame' in Chinese and it is also small like a sesame ...

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