Sea bunnies, sesame-coated snow rabbits, ゴマフビロードウミウシ or gomafu biroodo umiushi meaning black speckled velvet sea slugs… These Jorunna Parva sea slugs look like white fluffy bunnies and have been given a variety of nicknames and descriptions since their cute images and videos went viral. The one above was filmed by a diver off the coast of Japan in 2014.
The slug’s “ears” are actually rhinophores — rhino = nose, and phore = to bear or carry — the creature’s scent or taste receptors. Here’s an orange one:
There are more sea slugs, more mollusks, more from Japan, more super cute videos, and actual fluffy rabbit videos in the archives.
via My Modern Met.
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