Lucy Tassell
speaker
622 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 18 Sep
Lucy Tassell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
Because back in 2017 it awarded Attenborough a Lifetime Patron Honour.
In recognition of his remarkable contributions to scientific communication and advocacy.
But as part of that, it named a newly identified Tasmanian semi-slug after him.
Oh.
It's called the Attenborough Aryan Rubicundus.
Oh, okay.
Don't at me on the pronunciation there.
And after he found out about it, Attenborough said it might be the, quote, most beautiful slug in the world.
What's a semi-slug?
I don't know.
Okay, awesome.
Well, maybe we can find out.
Maybe Attenborough can tell us.
I can find out for you right now, Lucy, through our trusted friend Google.
Thank you.
According to Australian Geographic, a semi-slug is a gastropod mollusk representing an evolutionary intermediate between snails and slugs.
Yeah, it wasn't helping.
But I can tell you from the pictures they do look sort of like stunted snails, like snails that got halfway to growing a shell and then gave up.
He's had really three core concerns at the centre of his messaging, and that's over consumption.
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