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 ...
Around 100 million years ago, a group of sea snails abandoned the one thing that should have kept them alive—their shells. Instead of going extinct, they evolved into one of the strangest animals in ...
It could be the plot of a summer sci-fi blockbuster: A creature feeds on its prey and inherits its "superpower." Only this is real. A new study led by Harvard biologists describes how some sea slugs ...
Like Astrophage, the solar-radiation-eating microbes in Andy Weir’s novel Project Hail Mary, some sea slugs can derive energy from sunlight. Niamh Ordner Like Astrophage, the solar-radiation-eating ...
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