Northern California has seen a population explosion in the bright pink Hopkins’ rose sea slug as a result of warmer waters. Terry Gosliner, senior curator of invertebrate zoology and geology at the ...

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With the help of citizen science, researchers have unraveled the close correlation between weather conditions and the appearances of a giant slug species, enabling them to predict the slug's activity ...

A newly discovered sea slug adds that special something to mating: simultaneous forehead piercing. Found on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the new species of hermaphroditic sea slug­­ — bright yellow ...

They had to sea it to believe it. Researchers near California waters found an elusive, deep sea “mystery” mollusk that operates as a Venus fly trap far below depth. The creature is also spectacularly ...

Along the central and northern California coast, a certain rose has been blooming like crazy—the Hopkins’ rose nudibranch, a type of sea slug. Adorned with a spray of bright pink appendages, the slug, ...

It’s like something out of a B-grade horror movie. A severed head separates from its body. An unsuspecting scientist assumes a tragic fate, until the head twitches, moves, and regrows its body. Its ...

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Many an evening, householders in the quiet town of Emporia, Kans. (pop. 15,000) have been startled by a bobbing light at the bottom of their gardens, and a voice out of the darkness crying: “Ah, there ...