Tim Sexton from Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, assistant manager at Attenborough Nature Centre, on finding a new species of flatworm only ever seen once before in the UK.
A species of flatworm so new to science it doesn't even have a name yet, has just been confirmed at the Attenborough Nature Reserve.
The flatworm was discovered two days before the end of the year as part of my challenge to find 1,000 species on the site in just 12 months.
Found under a log in the Nature Centre garden, the creature stood out as it looked like a small chestnut coloured slug that was lacking tentacles. The most interesting feature was that despite measuring little more than 1cm in length, it had between 50 and 60 eyes!
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