Sea angels and their fluttering counterparts, sea butterflies, are pteropods ... including the reduction of biodiversity in coral reefs and the hampering of animals’ metabolisms.

These creatures include coral, plankton ... It's the pteropod — a free-swimming sea snail that moves about thanks to wings like a butterfly. It lives for two years or longer and grows to ...

Corolla ovate is a rarely encountered species of sea butterfly. Found all around the world’s oceans at depths of up to 2km, this tiny creature is known to haunt the coast of Australia, in the Bismarck ...

These beautiful winged sea snails are so admired for their graceful looks they are known as sea butterflies. Now it turns out they share more with insects than just a name – they flap their ...

Importantly, this indicates that even the upper sea level rise bounds are within the survival limits of resilient reef ...

Strange creatures straight out of a science-fiction movie have been captured by scientists off the coast of Antarctica. Pink and bulbous "sea pigs", hand-sized sea spiders and delicate sea ...

coral reefs, African elephants, cranes, tamarin monkeys, sharks and rays, butterflies and sea turtles. UF is the only university in this global consortium and is focusing specifically on ...

New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral, and shrimp were just some of the findings that were registered in a directory after the collaborative ...

South of Tampa Bay, in Florida, wedged between a quiet neighborhood and a mangrove forest, custom-designed aquariums are home to thousands of sea-urchin ... moment, coral reefs in the Caribbean ...

But more than a decade of mapping and exploration "revealed one of the largest deep-sea coral reef habitats found to date anywhere in the world," NOAA Ocean Exploration operations chief Kasey ...