At first glance, the lettuce sea slug (Elysia crispata) looks like a leafy underwater alien. But what’s hiding inside its ...

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

Marine creatures house contraband structures in special organelles, which the animal raids for food in times of need.

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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

Bathydevius caudactylus is the first known sea slug to live in the deep water column. It lives in the ocean’s midnight zone–a wide area of open water about 3,300 to 13,100 feet below the surface.

An unusual sea slug with a large hood, a tail with fingerlike projections and glowing bioluminescence has been found living off the West Coast of the US.