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 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 ...

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

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 ...

This method of protection can keep almost all predators at bay - but not the kaleidoscopically colourful sea slug. Nudibranchs, commonly known as sea slugs, are a group of shell-less marine molluscs.

a species of sea slug that looks as though it were dropped into the ocean from outer space. Improbably, the work would prove foundational to our understanding of how humans learn about the world ...

reveals that this small sea slug is both remarkably heat-tolerant and genetically diverse across its wide range — key traits that make it an ideal partner for climate-resilient coastal restoration.

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 ...