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A very unusual marine discovery has been made at Plymouth’s Mount Batten Beach during The Rock Pool Project’s monthly BioBlitz Battle. Two keen young rock poolers taking part in the citizen science event found specimens of the depilatory sea hare (Aplysia depilans), a species usually only seen in the Mediterranean and East Atlantic. It is possible that warming waters and increased storms have allowed for this species to make themselves more at home on our shores.

One of the sea hares was discovered by five-year-old Charley Taviner, who joined the BioBlitz Battle for the first time.

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