This week I am looking small at some of the slimiest animals in the Gulf of Maine, nudibranchs. A pretty name for an animal that is basically a slug.

Dive Into the Exotic World of Nudibranchs, ... “I own 15 of these shirts,” Cobb, 73, says later, as we walk to a restaurant in a small shopping center. “That’s all I wear.

Nudibranchs are gastropod mollusks, like mussels, clams and scallops. ... (and Parker) in the small percentage of the world’s 8 billion people who have ever seen, or maybe even heard of, one.

Typically small crustaceans, the prey are then pushed to the mouth at the back of the hood. The mystery mollusk. The nudibranch also seems to have a unique way of avoiding becoming food itself.

In 2022 ,the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute reported a new species of nudibranch near the Gulf of California crawling on the ocean floor at a depth of more than 7,700 feet.

Nudibranchs (Nudibranchia), or sea slugs, are found in oceans worldwide, usually in shallow waters. There’s more than 2000 known species of the weird and wonderful marine molluscs. While living in the ...

Washing up on our shores this week, we found small patches of fresh sargassum seaweed, large lightning whelks—which happen to be the Texas state shell—and a fascinating little creature known ...

Nudibranchs are gastropod mollusks, like mussels, clams and scallops. ... (and Parker) in the small percentage of the world’s 8 billion people who have ever seen, or maybe even heard of, one.