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A yellow-edged cadlina, a type of nudibranch or sea slug, is seen laying on the bottom of a tide pool at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve on the San Mateo County coast during an exceptionally low tide on Dec ...

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The natural world has produced some of the most potent poisons known to science. Here are some of the deadliest to humans ...