The aquatic ecosystem has always been interesting to humans. It is one territory where we can not survive for long and its ...

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 ...

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 ...

These sea slugs belong to a group called sacoglossans ... The slugs gain energy by stealing chloroplasts from the algae they eat and using them in their own tissues. Chloroplasts are the parts ...

The Sea Slug Animation Festival, the newest Seattle film festival whose adorably named “larval edition” runs from March 7–8 at the SIFF Cinema Uptown, is building itself around community ...

It belongs to a new family of sea slugs. Researchers from the MBARI dubbed it Bathydevius caudactylus and recently published their findings in the peer-reviewed journal Deep Sea Research Part I.

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 ...