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 ...

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 ...

Sea slugs are one of the world’s most stunning, diverse, and adaptable animals. Not only are sea slugs beautiful to look at, but their methods of survival are unparalleled. While some marine species ...

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 ...

This week, a friend sent me our horoscope—we’re both Gemini—from Seven Days, a beloved Vermont weekly, because, improbably, it was about the sea slug I’d been telling her about just days before. “The ...

SOME SEA slugs are kleptomaniacs. Elysia crispata, a species of these marine molluscs found in the western Atlantic and the Caribbean, is among the most notorious. When the slugs eat algae, their ...

A certain species of sea slug steals chloroplasts from algae and houses its contraband in special organelles that it can raid for food in times of need “It was the wildest thing that we had seen,” ...