The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has ...

“The frilled or silver nudibranch Leminda millecra is found only on the South and East coast of South Africa and has produced compounds that fight oesophagal cancer. Sponges from Sodwana, the ...

A marine biologist claims to have found an animal off the coast of Mallorca that had been missing for nearly three ...

A renowned marine biologist claims to have made a spectacular discovery off the coast of Mallorca: She reports having seen ...

In the past, the last thing that came to mind when I thought of snails and slugs was beauty. A little bit of disgust and maybe even fascination at best, but beauty? Today, things look rather different ...

The Elysia sea slug can shed its body and regrow it from the head down. Learn how this marine marvel cheats death.

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

Nature doesn’t hold back when it comes to color and some of the most dazzling displays can be found in the animal kingdom.

Trawlers off southern India caught a deep-sea creature with a regrown tail later identified by scientists as a new species, a study said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Hundreds of feet down in the ...

Trawlers off southern India caught a deep-sea creature with a regrown tail later identified by scientists as a new species, a study said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Hundreds of feet down in the ...

Have you ever heard of a nudibranch? They're colorful mollusks with no shells and you can see them at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum.