The newly described species of sea slug dwells in darkness in the ocean’s midnight zone, using a hood to capture prey with a ...

"We've invested more than 20 years in understanding the natural history of this fascinating species of nudibranch," said ...

Monterey Bay is the best studied patch of deep ocean in the world,” said Bruce Robison, senior scientist at MBARI. “And yet ...

Researchers Discover an Incredible New Sea Slug in Deep Sea, Nickname it 'Mystery Mollusc' Researchers were stunned when they ...

More than two decades after spotting a mysterious, gelatinous, bioluminescent creature swimming in the deep sea, California researchers this week announced that it is a new species of sea slug.

Scientists uncovered the "mystery mollusk," a strange glowing sea creature lurking in the ocean's midnight depths.

They've perfected the ability to steal stinging cells from prey, like sea anemones, and assimilate them into their bodies to reuse later on. Approximately 3000 nudibranch species roam the world's ...

Unless camouflaged, nudibranchs are unmissable, and even the camouflage is garish. Their bright coloration serves as a warning to would-be predators of elaborate defence mechanisms. Some simply taste ...

An international team of scientists led by Daria Grishina, a junior researcher at the Faculty of Biology of Lomonosov Moscow State University, studied a complex of species of nudibranch mollusks of ...

CLIMATEWIRE | More than a third of the world’s tree species are at risk of extinction, according to findings by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The group said that its first ...

New research has revealed that species that are more social live longer and produce offspring for a greater time-span. This is the first study on this topic which spans the animal kingdom ...

Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool's gold in central New York. The new species, Lomankus edgecombei ...