2026-04-01
1 小时 24 分钟Oh, hey, it's the one open table at the cafe that has croissant crumbs on it, but that's fine.
Allie Ward, this is Ologies.
These are nudibranchs.
We're talking sluggy beauties that you didn't know you needed to love.
The designs, the drama, the discoveries.
Nudibranchs, what are they?
They're 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 nudibranchs 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