Photo by Graeme Kruger on Flickr (CC) Gas Flame Nudibranch Castle Rock Dive, False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa. Bonisa nakaza About 350 million years ago during the Carboniferous, a group of snails ...

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 Hawaii, ...

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

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 ...

This National Sea Slug Day, celebrate the addition of 17 new species of nudibranch to the tree of life. Adorned in lavish patterns and colors that range from yellow polka dots to shades of mauve and ...

In the movie 8 Mile, an underdog rapper who chose the wrong name, B-Rabbit (played by Eminem), surprises a fella who chose the right name, Papa Doc, in a climactic rap battle. Turns out B-Rabbit knew ...

Guest Post: This past winter my good friend and excellent nature photographer Michael Ready and I were out exploring the Rocky Intertidal zone at Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego, Ca. While ...