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Editor w/ @NYTScience, former editor & staff writer @NewYorker. Author,"Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation." Future futurist, minor planet #9291.
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It’s Docktober. Do You Know Where the Sea Slugs Are?

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By Chona Kasinger, Alan Burdick Verified
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Perhaps you own a dock, or have sat on one by a bay, or spread out on one in the sun, or dived from one and swam around it. This much you know: It’s even better with company. Family, friends, friends of friends — the more the merrier. The same holds true underwater. The belowdecks of coastal docks, especially floating docks, often harbor rich, colorful “biofouling” communities: forests of sponges, sea mosses, seaweeds, sea slugs, sea stars and other marine organisms.
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It’s Docktober. Do You Know Where the Sea Slugs Are?

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By Chona Kasinger, Alan Burdick Verified
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Science|It’s Docktober. Do You Know Where the Sea Slugs Are? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/science/docktober-nudibranchs.html You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Perhaps you own a dock, or have sat on one by a bay, or spread out on one in the sun, or dived from one and swam around it. This much you know: It’s even better with company.
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How to Cash In on Autumn’s Fallen Leaves

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By Alan Burdick Verified
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You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. How to Cash In on Autumn’s Fallen Leaves To homeowners, fallen leaves look like work. To nature, they’re an investment, with tremendous value on the secondary market as invertebrate real estate. Credit...Simon Bailly Alan Burdick is a science editor at The Times.
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