Washing up on our shores this week, we found small patches of fresh sargassum seaweed, large lightning whelks—which happen to ...
The veteran HOV can now officially dive deeper into the sea, broadening the horizons of scientific discoveries under the surface.
Bathydevius caudactylus has a metabolism much lower than that reported in other nudibranchs; in fact, respiration rates are more similar to those MBARI researchers have recorded in deep-sea jellies.
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 animal features a unique grab bag of traits of other nudibranchs, says study co-author and MBARI marine biologist Steven Haddock. Haddock was present when scientists first spotted the mollusk, ...
There are spectacular deep-sea nudibranchs as well. Here is a new species of Dendronotus, collected in 2013 and found feeding on hydroids at a methane seep off California. Frenulates are extraordinary ...
sea slugs (nudibranchs), and small hydroid colonies clinging to the volcano's crust. Sparse octocoral colonies, which usually thrive in deep-sea habitats, were also observed. The carbonate ...