Why it's awesome: This tiny sea creature, which grows up to 1.2 inches (3 centimeters) long, is a type of nudibranch, or sea slug. Also known as a sea swallow or blue angel, it has three sets of ...

The blue dragon belongs to a Glaucus atlanticus species. Julian Obayd, 21, holds a plastic bucket with blue dragons in Stradbroke, Australia, in undated footage.

He and his colleagues pored over the complete genomic data from five species of snakes in the Elapidae family – including the blue-banded sea snake, cobras and mambas – comparing them to see ...

The sea slugs are only an inch long, but their primary food source is the highly venomous jellyfish species called the Portuguese man o' war. This means the blue sea dragons can inflict a sting ...

Middlemiss said the last confirmed blue-lipped sea krait found alive in New Zealand and reported to DoC was in the Tauranga Marina in 2018, and before that at Devonport in 2011.

The sea harbors some of the world's deadliest venomous sea snakes, including the black-banded sea krait, olive-headed sea snake, and others. Despite their potent venom, human encounters are rare ...

The olive-headed sea snake (or greater sea snake) is one of the most venomous snakes in the world.They can get to be 3 ½ feet long and are yellow to cream with dark brown bands.

A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution finds that the annulated sea snake, a species of venomous snake found in ocean waters around Australia and Asia, appears to have evolved to see an ...

THE readiness with which the British snake (Tropidonotus natrix) will enter fresh water is well known. Its occurrence in the sea seems anomalous, and therefore I venture to submit the following ...