When these sea slugs eat a certain type of algae they can photosynthesize their food from sunlight and oxygen, just like a plant, for about 10 days, Yusa said. What’s probably happening after ...

Marine scientists have identified and named a mysterious creature of the deep sea after studying the elusive sea slug for twenty years.

By raising them in an aquarium and observing their behavior, it was discovered that blue sea slugs use their lateral protrusions like hands to capture and eat prey. It was previously thought that the ...

I had been given a mission: to film a blind, underwater sea slug known as the sea bunny, which uses its ‘ears’ to sense chemicals in the water, and feeds on a poisonous blue sponge in order to ...

It's similar to how some sea slugs have evolved to take chloroplasts from the algae they eat via what is known as kleptoplasty, subsisting off sunlight – which also could be how other species ...