The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has collected body size data for more than 85,000 marine animal species and ...

A marine biologist claims to have found an animal off the coast of Mallorca that had been missing for nearly three centuries—the "Blue Dragon." As fascinating as its appearance is, contact with it can ...

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 ...

A renowned marine biologist claims to have made a spectacular discovery off the coast of Mallorca: She reports having seen the rare sea slug Glaucus atlanticus. This would be the first sighting in ...

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

The Dead Sea is a confluence of extraordinary conditions: the lowest point on Earth's surface, with one of the world's ...

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.

The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum's new exhibit, "Brilliant Colors of the Sea," features photographs of nudibranchs. Nudibranchs are shell-less marine mollusks known for their vibrant ...