The team has named these sacs “kleptosomes.” These membrane-bound compartments protect the chloroplasts and keep them ...

A certain species of sea slug steals chloroplasts from algae and houses its contraband in special organelles that it can raid ...

A new study led by Harvard biologists describes how some sea slugs consume algae and incorporate their photosynthetic ...

More than 20 years after first observing a glowing creature in the deep sea California researchers have identified it as a new species of sea slug. Cheddar News Posted: November 21, 2024 | Last ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The underwater slug, which propels itself to swim by closing its hood like a jelly, also contains “colorful internal organs in between.” It lives at depths up to 13,100 feet on the sea floor ...

In 2000, scientists spotted a bioluminescent mollusk in the deep sea.; The animal was so unique that they had no idea what it was until they did genetic testing. It turned out to be a new species ...

Another 20 of the sea slugs were spied on the seafloor between depths of 7,444 and 13,153 feet. This places the species firmly in the midnight or bathypelagic zone, ...

Although the apple-size species, named Bathydevius caudactylus, is classified as a sea slug, the marine animal is unlike any sea slug Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute scientists have seen ...