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

A certain species of sea slug steals chloroplasts from algae and houses its contraband in special organelles that it can raid ...

A new study led by Harvard biologists describes how some sea slugs consume algae and incorporate their photosynthetic ...

Shellfish beds or reefs, formed by mussels and oysters, have declined worldwide. Sterre Witte, who conducted her Ph.D.

The team has named these sacs “kleptosomes.” These membrane-bound compartments protect the chloroplasts and keep them ...

And food availability for these fussy eaters varies enormously. For many, the plants they consume are distributed patchily through the shallow waters. ... Where: Sea slugs live in all oceans, ...

Usually, sea slugs use their rough tongues to scrape food off the seafloor. But this mysterious, bioluminescent mollusk uses its hood to snatch its food mid-swim.

Elysia crispata, or the lettuce sea slug, has a ruffled exterior that is reminiscent of a head of iceberg lettuce, especially when it takes on a greenish hue. These lettuce-like folds are actually ...

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.

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 ...

Usually, sea slugs use their rough tongues to scrape food off the seafloor. But this mysterious, bioluminescent mollusk uses its hood to snatch its food mid-swim.