A sea slug smaller than a sesame seed has turned up in Taiwan’s coastal waters — and it’s so tiny and unusual that scientists realized they had discovered a completely new species. Named Thecacera ...

Scientists have hailed the “thrilling” new discovery of a sea slug species after collecting specimens during “routine fisheries surveys” off southwest England and Spain’s Gulf of Cadiz. The new ...

On a routine recreational dive off Keelung, Taiwan, a diver noticed something barely visible on the substrate: a soft-bodied animal smaller than a sesame seed. The diver snapped a macro photograph, ...

Marine scientists have discovered that what was once thought to be a single sea slug species is actually at least 75 distinct species that were shaped over millions of years by repeated Antarctic ...

Learn how a recreational dive, a Facebook message, and years of DNA analysis led researchers to identify a sesame-seed-sized sea slug off Taiwan as a newly described species. Ho-Yeung Chan was on a ...