Fluorescent pink slug, unique to Australian mountaintop, survives bushfires

Around 60 of the brightly coloured Mount Kaputar slugs have been spotted, but fires have burnt their habitat

A fluorescent pink slug, found only on a single mountaintop in northern New South Wales, has survived the bushfires that burnt through much of its alpine habitat.

Around 60 of the brightly coloured Mount Kaputar slugs, which can grow to a size longer than a human hand, were spotted by National Parks and Wildlife Service rangers after recent rainfall in Mount Kaputar national park.