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Nicknamed the donut sea slug for obvious reasons, this nautical nudibranch recently starred in Bryan Blauvelt’s Underwater ...
Sea slugs don’t shy away from the fish, crabs, sea turtles, or even other sea slugs that might want to take a bite out of them. Instead, the brightest and most patterned sea slugs are more ...
This sexy slug knows how to move it. An underwater photographer managed to capture a sea slug “dancing” in the water, but the image quickly went viral after being compared to something a ...
Researchers have discovered a new species of glowing sea slug deep in the ocean’s midnight zone. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) scientists said in a press release on Tuesday ...
The rainbow sea slug is beautiful, vibrant, and an extremely rare find. There have only been three previous sightings of the creature in the UK. Experts believe the slugs are adapting to climate ...
The Leaf Sheep Sea Slugs Performs Photosynthesis. The leaf sheep is such a precious sea slug. What you’re looking at in the photos is the leaf sheep’s eyes and mouth, as well as its cerata.
The sea slugs embed the chloroplasts into their own digestive cells, where the organelles continue to photosynthesize for up to nine months—that’s even longer than they would perform in algae.
An 'extremely rare' rainbow sea slug was spotted along the coast of England The rare rainbow sea slug, or Babakina anadoni, is typically found in the warmer waters off Spain, Portugal and France.
Doto sea slugs feed by piercing the stems of hydroids and sucking out their internal fluids. Those flashy "donuts" are what’s known as cerata, floppy projections that are found on aeolid ...