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

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 ...

A team from the University of Queensland in Australia analyzed sea slug coloration across 45 eastern Australian species. Poisonous animals like some nudibranchs–aka sea slugs–and poisonous ...

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 use bright, contrasting color patterns to send messages to potential predators like 'Don't eat me, I'm poisonous,'" Dr. van den Berg said. "We simulated how the sea slugs would appear ...

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 ...

The blue glaucus is the prettiest slug in the sea. The blue glaucus ... he molts and loses his come-hither feathers. Tiny, adorable poison dart frogs can kill fully grown men.

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 ...