There is a kind of soft, toxic snail that lives in the sea called a Nudibranch. The many kinds of Nudibranch all have intense coloration and weird shapes — so weird, in fact, that National Geographic ...

New UCLA research indicates that an evolutionary phenomenon never before observed among marine life could help explain why there is such immense biodiversity in the world’s coral reefs and the ocean ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From an ecological perspective, our oceans are as special as our land. Seawater makes up more than 70% of the Earth's surface.

Photo by Graeme Kruger on Flickr (CC) Gas Flame Nudibranch Castle Rock Dive, False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa. Bonisa nakaza About 350 million years ago during the Carboniferous, a group of snails ...

The summer months bring low morning tides along the California coast, providing an opportunity to see one of the state’s most unusual inhabitants, sea slugs. Also called nudibranchs, many of these ...

This week I am looking small at some of the slimiest animals in the Gulf of Maine, nudibranchs. A pretty name for an animal that is basically a slug. You heard me, nudibranchs are snails without a ...

One of the most striking creatures now appearing in your neighborhood tidepool is the purple fan nudibranch, a shell-less snail that comes in circus colors, can perform what sounds like a magic trick ...

New UCLA research indicates that an evolutionary phenomenon never before observed among marine life could help explain why there is such immense biodiversity in the world's coral reefs and the ocean ...