An attempt by one slug species to eat another ends in a flamboyant dance by the potential prey — and in a learning experience for the hungry predator. A new video shows this interaction, which ...

When threatened by predators, sea slugs defend themselves by ejecting a potent inky secretion into the water consisting of hydrogen peroxide, ammonia and several types of acids. A team of ...

An attempt by one slug species to eat another ends in a flamboyant dance by the potential prey — and in a learning experience for the hungry predator.

As it turns out, the nudibranchs’ colors serve as a warning to predators: These sea slugs are packing some very sophisticated defenses. And some aren’t above stealing weapons from their prey.

Nocturnal sea slug predators are less likely to use their vision to hunt overnight, when the senses of touch and smell are more important.

It is described by the editors as an important study providing convincing evidence on how the sea slug Aplysia kurodai optimises its digestion of brown algae, in a classical predator-prey 'arms ...

Other sea creatures, on the other hand, may not look so scary to us, but their coloration signals to predators that they are not good to eat – that they could, in fact, be poisonous to eat.

This is a defense mechanism used to evade predators, whereas whole-body autotomy and regeneration are traits found in specific sacoglossan sea slugs.

March 1 (UPI) --Scientists have created a virtual slug model that thinks and acts just like a real sea slug. Cyberslug is modeled after the sea slug species Pleurobranchaea californica, a small ...

They also tried imitating a predator attack by pinching the heads of another sampling of sea slugs, but this did not induce autotomy.

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 ...

An underwater photographer managed to capture a sea slug 'dancing' in the water that quickly went viral after being compared to something a little x-rated.