One side of the nudibranch — known colloquially as a sea slug — is a “voluminous hooded structure at one end” with a “tail fringed with numerous finger-like projections at the other ...

Named for the undulating waves of its broad, fleshy appendages—called parapodia—lettuce sea slugs appear in a range of colors ...

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 ...

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 ...

Experts said the find at Wembury, near Plymouth, was "amazing" A nature enthusiast and her father have made a colourful discovery of a sea slug usually found in the Mediterranean in a rock pool in ...

A GHOSTLY new species of sea slug has been discovered in the 'midnight zone' - more than 7,000ft below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute ...

Marine biologists have found a new sea slug that is right at home in the ocean’s deep and dark midnight zone. With a large, gelatinous hood, tail like a paddle, and bright bioluminescence ...

When these sea slugs eat a certain type of algae they can ... It turns a shade of green and gets its energy from oxygen and sunlight. The fact that it becomes tiny helps, he said.

Deep-sea researchers have discovered a strange glowing sea slug off the coast of California that lives in the water column — unlike most other species of its kind. Hypnotizing footage reveals a ...

California researchers this week announced that it is a new species of sea slug. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute posted video online of the new sea slug floating gently in the depths.