Article: Cardiff's 'ghost slug' slithers into the top 10 of new species around the world.

Byline: Robin Turner

WITH its eerily white skin, razor-sharp teeth and a taste for earthworm blood, the so-called "ghost slug" of Cardiff is not exactly a gardener's favourite.

But the eyeless creature has now captured the hearts of an international panel of natural science experts, who have just placed it in their "top 10" of newly-discovered species.

The International Institute for Species Exploration's State of Observed Species report, published this month, highlights thousands of new plants, animals and other specimens officially designated as ...

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