At the end of the semester in the advanced invertebrate zoology course I took, my rather dry, boring professor made the only joke I remember him ever uttering. We had just finished the phylum ...

A species of sea slug – barely the size of a grain of rice – has been discovered in Taiwan’s waters by scientists ...

From an ecological perspective, our oceans are as special as our land. Seawater makes up more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface. Oceans teem with an enormous variety of animal groups poorly known ...

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Some of the most bizarre lifeforms on Earth lurk in the deeper realms of the ocean. There was so little known about one of these creatures that it took 20 years just to figure out what exactly it was.

From an ecological perspective, our oceans are as special as our land. Seawater makes up more than 70% of the Earth’s surface. Oceans teem with an enormous variety of animal groups poorly known to ...

Biologists from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have discovered in Hong Kong waters a new species of hard coral and two new species of nudibranch, a type of marine mollusc, that have never been ...

Nudibranchs are often referred to as the butterflies of the sea. Nudibranchs live worldwide, primarily in warm, shallow marine regions, and stand out for their flamboyant colors and diverse shapes. A ...

This National Sea Slug Day, celebrate the addition of 17 new species of nudibranch to the tree of life. Adorned in lavish patterns and colors that range from yellow polka dots to shades of mauve and ...

Nudibranchs, colloquially known as sea slugs, are some of the more eye-popping critters to grace the world’s oceans. Now scientists are welcoming 17 newly-named species to the carnival-colored lineage ...