Sea slugs use bold, bright colors under sunlight to warn predators of their toxic traits. These colors are easier for fish to ...

They found that sea slugs use bold visual signals like brightly colored spots, thick stripes, or enhanced body outlines to ...

Rather than hiding from predators, the brightest and most patterned sea slugs are active during the day so their colors shine ...

W e may have visually led predators to thank for some of the most dazzling marine species: sea slugs. Luminous greens, blues, ...

BUXTON, N.C. (WAVY) – Venomous sea slugs have been spotted along North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Known as blue sea dragons, these slugs live in the ocean and occasionally get washed ashore by ...

Nematocysts are the venomous stinging cell organelles produced by cnidarians such as jellyfish. They're a highly effective defence mechanism, able to keep a number of threats at bay. But the sea slugs ...

Sea slugs!” We are almost at the car when he ... to be a nudibranch so that predators will mistake it for something venomous. As we watch, two rhinophores appear to poke out from its body ...

underwater sea slug known as the sea bunny, which uses its ‘ears’ to sense chemicals in the water, and feeds on a poisonous blue sponge in order to make itself toxic to predators. It felt as ...

They’re sea slugs, part of the Dotidae family. And while they’re small — measuring less than a quarter of an inch — they can have an outsize impact, according to a researcher who studies them.

Rather than hiding from predators, the brightest and most patterned sea slugs are active during the day so their colours ...