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Sheep-ish!

Scuba diver Yusuke Fukami snapped this photo last December. It shows a type of sea slug often called a leaf sheep. Despite its nickname, this creature is neither a leaf nor a sheep. It’s a mollusk, a type of sea animal with a soft body.

Leaf sheep are found mainly in the ocean around Southeast Asia. With what look like fluffy bodies and floppy ears, these slugs resemble sheep. And they munch on algae the way sheep graze on grass. But leaf sheep are much smaller. They’re only about the size of your thumbnail!

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