Sea slugs are one of the world’s most stunning, diverse, and adaptable animals. Not only are sea slugs beautiful to look at, but their methods of survival are unparalleled. While some marine species ...
In its native Pacific waters, the sea slug Siphopteron makisig looks tiny and delicate, like a bud of colored glass. But in reality this slug is a mirror-image mating machine, as modeled by the pair ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2000, scientists spotted a bioluminescent mollusk in the deep sea. The animal was so unique that they had no idea what it was ...
SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY PHD RESEARCHER, SAYAKA MITOH, SAYING:"One day, the head and body of the Elysia cf. marginata (sea slug) that our laboratory had been raising for ...
At least two species of sacoglossan sea slugs are capable of severing their own heads from their bodies and then growing an entirely new body, including a heart and other internal organs. The authors ...
When we think of slugs, we often picture slimy brown garden creatures. Under the sea, however, you can find slugs so colorful and unique they seem to have been transplanted from another planet ...
Scientists at Nara Women’s University in Japan observed a strange phenomenon last year that would make many a lizard quite envious. Sea slugs’ heads can detach and regrow the entirety of their bodies, ...
"It's wild that something smaller than a sesame seed can still have that much detail and patterning." ...
A researcher finds some types of slugs can completely regenerate their body after self-decapitating as a method of surviving disease. Look; we've all heard of extreme makeovers, but slugs take that ...
It turns out getting beheaded doesn’t mean automatic death for every animal. Researchers discovered that two species of sea slugs, Elysia cf. marginata and Elysia atroviridis, can regrow their body ...
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