Many sea sponges, like anemones, use toxins to repel would-be predators. Some species of sea slugs, however, such as Platydoris scabra, have evolved immunity against the toxins of specific sponge ...

This method of protection can keep almost all predators at bay - but not the kaleidoscopically colourful sea slug. Nudibranchs, commonly known as sea slugs, are a group of shell-less marine molluscs.

The mysterious creature also hides from predators in plain sight, taking advantage of its transparent body. If it feels ...

Most of us can barely recover from a bad haircut, but there are two species of sea slugs that can literally regrow their entire bodies from just their heads, which they seem to purposely detach ...

In the 1960s, neuroscientist Eric Kandel began a series of experiments on the California brown sea hare, a species of sea slug that looks ... the approach of a predator. At first, the sea hares ...

When predators in the sky look down, they can't spot the sea slugs, since they blend right into the shimmering sea. And when predators in the water below look up, they see the opposite side of the ...

If a banana slug loses a tentacle to a predator or accident, it’s able to grow back. The banana slug has a single lung, which has an external breathing pore, and it eats with its radula ...

I had been given a mission: to film a blind, underwater sea slug known as the sea bunny, which uses its ‘ears’ to sense chemicals in the water, and feeds on a poisonous blue sponge in order to ...

The Sea Slug Animation Festival, the newest Seattle film festival whose adorably named “larval edition” runs from March 7–8 at the SIFF Cinema Uptown, is building itself around community ...

reveals that this small sea slug is both remarkably heat-tolerant and genetically diverse across its wide range — key traits that make it an ideal partner for climate-resilient coastal restoration.

Thus, most sponges living today produce potent toxins, which provide a secondary benefit of discouraging all but the most highly adapted predators, such as the sea slugs. Competition for a common ...