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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...