Townsville's Reef HQ aquarium has made an unusual discovery, finding three marine creatures called nudibranchs in Ross Creek. Reef HQ guide Joanna Curtis says the species, often referred to as ...

Over two decades ago, researchers spotted a mysterious sea slug swimming more than 8,000 feet deep in the Monterey Bay. In February 2000, scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute ...

Q. I enjoy learning about bizarre animals like the terrestrial one you recently wrote about called a hammerhead worm. With all the strange animals found on land, the oceans must be full of even more ...

At the end of the semester in the advanced invertebrate zoology course I took, my rather dry, boring professor made the only joke I remember him ever uttering. We had just finished the phylum ...

From an ecological perspective, our oceans are as special as our land. Seawater makes up more than 70% of the Earth’s surface. Oceans teem with an enormous variety of animal groups poorly known to ...

The little whirlpools among the logs under the float house caught my eye. I was amazed to find tiny egg casings swimming in circles around a brilliantly white nudibranch with a yellow “mane.” There ...

Undulating deep in Monterey Bay, the translucent mystery mollusc defied characterization. On Tuesday, scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) announced their discovery of ...