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“There’s nothing wrong with the reefs, of course, but there’s a lot of species of nudibranchs that don’t live there.” A Goniobranchus geminus nudibranch in the waters of Tulamben, Bali, ...
The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium on Sanibel recently unveiled a new exhibition. Opened on May 29, ...
Terry Lilley / contributed. Nudibranchs are soft-bodied, colorful sea slugs. They live in most of the world’s oceans from a foot deep all the way down to over 100 feet deep.
Nudibranchs are snails without shells. The common name of these animals is sea slugs. Hawaii hosts about a thousand nudibranchs, some species still unnamed. The excellent website “Sea Slugs of ...
In 2022 the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute reported a new species of nudibranch crawling on the ocean floor near the Gulf of California at a depth of more than 7,700 feet.
These images of emperor shrimps riding their nudibranch hosts are hilarious. AT JUST TWO centimetres tall, the emperor shrimp (Periclimenes imperator) of the Indo-Pacific may seem unremarkable, but it ...
Nudibranchs eat using a radula, which is “kind of like a sharp, hard tongue,” says Goodheart. Watching a nudibranch eat isn’t, at first glance, all that different from watching a slug on a leaf.
The Philippines made an impact at this year's Ocean Geographic Pictures of the Year competition, with three Filipino visual ...
We're wrapping up Tiny Critter Week with a reprise of one of our favorite episodes — nudibranchs. In this episode, Maddie and Emily got super nerdy, diving into the incredible world of nudibranchs.
Sargassum nudibranch as it looks out of the water with seaweed behind it on Mustang Island in February 2025. (Photos by Jace Tunnell/Harte Research Institute) ...
Nudibranchs, commonly known as sea slugs, are a group of shell-less marine molluscs. Their name means 'naked gill', referring to the breathing apparatus on the outside of their soft bodies. These ...