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Seagrasses are critical to coastal ecosystems—offering habitat, stabilizing the seafloor and buffering wave energy—but globally they're increasingly under threat. Beginning in 2011, a series of ...

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 ...

The leaf sheep is such a precious sea slug. What you’re looking at in the photos is the leaf sheep’s eyes and mouth, as well as its cerata. The cerata are the leaflike appendages that cover the leaf ...

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 ...

It might look like something you'd find in an alien salad, but this bizarre sea slug can actually steal body parts from other organisms and use their powers for itself. "This is an organism that can ...

In oceans all over the world, sea slugs are at the cutting edge of harvesting alternative energy. By farming photosynthetic cells stolen from their food and using the nutrients they produce, these ...

Sea slugs come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, colors, and patterns. With so many different species, it feels like there's always something new to learn about them. There is one sea slug that you most ...

A photo taken in May 2025, of a small, green sap sucking sea slug retrieved from the Indian River Lagoon. Seagrasses are critical to coastal ecosystems – offering habitat, stabilizing the seafloor and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock At first glance, it looks more like a tiny leaf than a sea creature. But one post is reminding people that ...