The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum's new exhibit, "Brilliant Colors of the Sea," features photographs of nudibranchs. Nudibranchs are shell-less marine mollusks known for their vibrant colors ...

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 ...

The vast majority of octopus species live along the sea floor--whether that is in the sandy shallows off a tropical coast or in the dark depths around hydrothermal vents. But a handful of octopuses ...

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 ...

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 ...