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Welcome to Creature Feature, production of IHeart Radio.

I'm your host of mini-parasites Katie Golden.

I studied psychology and evolutionary biology.

And today on the show we're going to talk about some weird, wet, and sometimes mucusy sea creatures.

No matter how strange they seem, their behavior isn't always so different from us terrestrial animals,

and maybe we can learn how to live a little from them.

From the sunlight to the abyssal zone, we're going to go over

some of the weirdest citizens of the sea because joining me today is science writer for the

New York Times and author of the new book, Leaving the Ocean was a mistake. Life lessons from

60 sea creatures, Kara Gimo. Welcome. Hi Katie, it's great to be back. Yeah, I got a copy of the book. It's very enchanting. I love all of it.

The illustrations by Vlad Sankovic are beautiful.

And then you have, coupled with it, these amazing nuggets of knowledge, wisdom about each of these sea creatures.

And I feel like it gives you a really beautiful, charming sense of how wildly diverse the ocean is

and all these really weird things that are so, like, they're so unusual, and it goes beyond sort of just

like kind of the sea creatures we know, like sharks, jellyfish, et cetera. I mean, there are,

there are definitely ones that you will know in this book and really interesting facts about them as well.

But yeah, I love it because it really gives a nice sense of how weird these animals can be and nonsensical they can be.

Yeah, I mean, I want to talk about the subjects of your book a little bit.

But first, of these 60C creatures you wrote about, are there any that really were kind of your favorites or close to your favorite or the weirdest one that you were most surprised to write about?

Yeah, totally.

I mean, I found the research and writing process for this

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