These leathery turtles spend most of their lives buried motionless in river mud, but burst into action to catch their ...
While most sea slugs use a rough tongue to feed on prey attached to the seafloor, B. caudactylus uses a cavernous hood to ...
Newly released images from NASA's Juno spacecraft provide an unprecedented look at Jupiter, revealing stunning details of the ...
With populations down over 80%, giant clams face extinction, threatening coral reefs’ stability and their carbon-sequestering ...
Nudibranchs, or sea slugs, are soft-bodied marine gastropod mollusks. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute senior scientists Bruce Robison and Steven Haddock first encountered the odd animal ...
There are a few rules to being an IFLScience writer, and one is that if someone sends you an email with the subject matter “mystery mollusk,” you don’t sit on it. So, when the Monterey Bay ...
In February 2000, scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute were using a remotely operated vehicle to observe sea animals offshore when they discovered a bioluminescent mollusk ...
Researchers have discovered an unlikely new species within the ocean's midnight zone: a glowing "mystery mollusk."Although the apple-size species, named Bathydevius caudactylus, is classified as a ...