Oh, hey, it's the one open table at the cafe that has croissant cramps on it, but that's fine.

Allie Ward, this is Ologies. These are Nudabranks. We're talking sluggy beauties that you didn't know you need to love,

the designs, the drama, the discoveries. Nudabrinks. What are they? Their soft-bodied mollusks

of the sea, they live in the tropics to the far, snowy corners of

Antarctica, from the shallows to the depths. We're going to hear all about them. There's so many

species to love. So many that we called upon two members of the same species, both humans,

nudibranchologists, who live on opposite sides of the continent, but love nudibranx

equally. One is the senior curator of California Academy of Sciences Invertebrate Zoology

and Geology Department in San Francisco. He has been there since 1982. He is a legend among

people who wear wetsuits for a living. We're going to talk all about it. Our second

expert, I know we almost never have more than one expert, but there was just too much to talk

about, is an assistant curator at the American Museum of Natural History and studies the

biodiversity and evolution of marine invertebrates, including neuterangs. Yes, nudibranchology, it's a word. It means nude or

naked gills or brankia slugs with outside lungs, and they have so much more going for them.

We're going to get into it. But first, a quick thank you to all the listeners supporting us

via patreon.com slash ologies, where you can submit questions

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on days when I open the news and I want to die under the porch like an old dog. So let's stick

together. But thank you, Riley Rainbow, who wrote, I'm officially the coolest at dinner parties.

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