Here, we identify a new type of extreme autotomy in two species of sacoglossan sea slug. Surprisingly, they shed the main body, including the whole heart, and regenerated a new body. In contrast ...

But it gets even stranger than that; there's a slug that can photosynthesize like a plant! Sea slugs are fascinating in general. Whether it's a sea slug that looks like Shaun the Sheep that you ...

The Sea Slug Animation Festival, the newest Seattle film festival whose adorably named “larval edition” runs from March 7–8 at the SIFF Cinema Uptown, is building itself around community ...

The aquatic ecosystem has always been interesting to humans. It is one territory where we can not survive for long and its ...

a species of sea slug that looks as though it were dropped into the ocean from outer space. Improbably, the work would prove foundational to our understanding of how humans learn about the world ...

reveals that this small sea slug is both remarkably heat-tolerant and genetically diverse across its wide range—key traits that make it an ideal partner for climate-resilient coastal restoration.

→ 6-foot-long sea creature — with 'sharp' snout — discovered ... according to the study. The slug is “greyish-brown” in color on the back, and the foot, or fleshy muscle on the bottom ...

Patrick Krug can count on one hand the number of researchers who have ever studied wetland sea slugs from the genus Alderia. These gastropods, the size of a Tic Tac, are wildly abundant on the ...