The study, led by biologists at Harvard University found that the slugs build sac-like structures known as kleptosomes out of ...

Unlike typical nudibranchs, which usually crawl along the seafloor in coastal environments such as coral reefs, kelp forests, and tide pools, this sea slug swims freely through the ocean's ...

Usually, sea slugs use their rough tongues to scrape food off the seafloor. ... anatomy, physiology, reproduction, feeding, behavior; it's unique," Robison told CNN.

MBARI researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean's midnight zone with a large gelatinous hood and ...

Although the apple-size species, named Bathydevius caudactylus, is classified as a sea slug, the marine animal is unlike any sea slug Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute scientists have seen ...

Bathydevius caudactylus is the first known sea slug to live in the deep water column. It lives in the ocean’s midnight zone–a wide area of open water about 3,300 to 13,100 feet below the surface.

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Protecting their ecosystems could give us a chance to find more forms of life just as strange and fascinating as a glowing sea slug. Deep Sea Research, 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2024.104414 ...

Most sea slugs live on the sea floor and in shallow water, in tide pools, kelp forests and on coral reefs. “To find one out in the deep water column, living entirely away from the sea floor, was a big ...

It took nearly 25 years for biologists to discover that a swimming and glowing organism in the ocean’s midnight zone was actually a sea slug. By William J. Broad Bruce Robison, a marine ...

An unusual sea slug with a large hood, a tail with fingerlike projections and glowing bioluminescence has been found living off the West Coast of the US.

Predators might overlook the sea slug's transparent body or be startled by its bioluminescence. "It kind of acts as a burglar alarm," Robison said. MBARI has been using ROVs since the late 1980s.