This animal is a marine gastropod mollusk known as Thuridilla gracilis (often referred to as a sap-sucking sea slug or colloquially grouped with sea slugs/nudibranchs).A tiny splash of electric blue and vibrant orange in the vast blue.
Harry George Lee (1940 – 2024) was an American physician, malacologist, paleontologist, and one of the world's foremost amateur authorities on mollusks.
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Follow our museum colleagues, led by Roland Kays, as they re-survey the Lewis and Clark trail across 16 states! The orange dot is where they currently are on their journey.
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Worm Snails
Most of the sea snails in this tide pool cruise around searching for food. But not the scaled wormsnail. It cements its shell to a rock and snags its meals using the one thing a snail has plenty of mucus!
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Did you know the Division of Marine Fisheries maintains 43 ocean artificial reefs and 29 estuarine reefs, creating great spots for fishing and SCUBA diving?
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Meet Zandile Ndhlovu, South Africa's first black female freediving instructor! She founded The Black Mermaid Foundations, which exposes local communities to the ocean.