Beautiful video. Just for the record, this animal is not new. The genus Tomopteris is known since 1825. Is addressed in each marine biology course as the poster child example of marine evolution in action. A worm that wants to be a brine shrimp and does not need to dig a burrow at all.
What changed is the technology. Most contractile animals are very difficult to measure. This includes tens thousands of species of molluscs, worms or jellyfishes that previously required complicated tricks to drug them alive
Why we would want to got a slug drunk before to kill them? to remove any pain in the process, so is preserved in a totally relaxed state
Is a pain in the ass for any researcher studying this animals to locate things like the penis in a contracted and distorted worm (Without this parts you can't classify them even at genus level). If this technique is able to draw the inner organs (on its real shape and size, and placed where they need to be, according to the rest of the glands and organs), each malacologist in the planet will cheer in relief
What changed is the technology. Most contractile animals are very difficult to measure. This includes tens thousands of species of molluscs, worms or jellyfishes that previously required complicated tricks to drug them alive
Why we would want to got a slug drunk before to kill them? to remove any pain in the process, so is preserved in a totally relaxed state
Is a pain in the ass for any researcher studying this animals to locate things like the penis in a contracted and distorted worm (Without this parts you can't classify them even at genus level). If this technique is able to draw the inner organs (on its real shape and size, and placed where they need to be, according to the rest of the glands and organs), each malacologist in the planet will cheer in relief