Biology researcher Sayaka Mitoh said she loves studying Japanese sea slugs because they are small, cute and weird. They can even briefly photosynthesize like a plant drawing food from the sun.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hypnotizing footage reveals a never-before-seen swimming sea slug that eats using a large jelly-like hood and glows to defend ...

It took nearly 25 years for biologists to discover that a swimming and glowing organism in the ocean’s midnight zone was actually a sea slug. By William J. Broad Bruce Robison, a marine ...

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 ...