Neither jellyfish nor sharks nor the stinging-cold waters of the Monterey Bay deterred the UC Santa Cruz swim team from spending a recent Sunday completing the eighth annual transbay swim–a grueling, ...

Monterey Bay researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. The glowing nudibranch swims through the ocean’s midnight zone with a large gelatinous hood ...

UCSC sophomore Emi Yamauchi took first place in the women’s 200-yard butterfly. Sophomore Daniel Hurst won the men’s 200-yard butterfly. After a hard battle in the water, the UCSC women’s swimming ...

UC Santa Cruz’s Asher Kates took first in two events on Saturday, and the Banana Slugs’ men’s swim and dive team took first place with 908 points at the 2024 Slug Shootout. Kates took first in the 200 ...

Sea slugs (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudipleura) provide unique opportunities for studying the evolution of behavior at the levels of single neurons, neural circuits, and their synaptic connections. Of ...

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Out there in the open ocean is a nudibranch sea slug that looks like a fish, and for the last five months I’ve been obsessed with it. I wrote an article about this fishy slug, called Phylliroe, back ...

MBARI researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean’s midnight zone with a large gelatinous hood and ...

Experts said the find at Wembury, near Plymouth, was "amazing" A nature enthusiast and her father have made a colourful discovery of a sea slug usually found in the Mediterranean in a rock pool in ...