Holy crap it’s a hot pink slug

Fluorescent and vaguely obscene - looking , this technicolor tellurian molusk lives on Mount Kaputar , a distant mountaintop in New South Wales , Australia . It is the only plaza on Earth slugs like this are known to rest .

“ It ’s a tiny island of alpine forest , century of kilometres away from anything else like it , ” said Michael Murphy , a national parks Texas Ranger intimate with the mountain , in an interview with theSydney Morning Herald . “ The slugs , for illustration , are bury in the folio mold during the day , but sometimes at night they come out in their century and feed off the mould and moss on the Tree . They are amazing , unreal - looking creatures . ”

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local anesthetic had long describe regard freaky pink poke after rain in the area , but it was only very recently that taxonomists confirmed the slugs , Triboniophorus aff . graeffei , as well as several of the escargot mintage – which raven on other vegetarian country snail – were unique to the mountaintop .

They are a token of the era when much of eastern Australia was damp rainforest , and belike would have long since vanished , if a volcano had not erupted at Mount Kaputar about 17 million year ago .

It bears cite that slugs are kind of just strange in general , disregarding of their color ( which , in this example , probably has something to do with its endemism ) or spot of origin ( looking at you , Australia ) – and often amazingly so . Case in point : in earnest impressivecoital technique . Also there’spenis - chewing .

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