The jellyfishlike creatures, called Velella velella, emerged Sunday along Bolinas Beach in Marin County, a visitor told the ...

Destined to break down and return its material to the earth, sunken wood offers a unique habitat to some tiny creatures ... thin and translucent shell, Voight wrote. Its name comes from ...

One of the strangest groups of creatures of all is ... There's the sea hare that's more of a tortoise at cruise speed; with an internal shell wrapped in soft undulations of tissue, they're bizarre ...

The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...

Stinging cells, produced by cnidarians such as jellyfish and anemones, are one of ocean creatures' most effective ... Nudibranchs, commonly known as sea slugs, are a group of shell-less marine ...

While all other sea turtles have hard, bony shells, the inky-blue carapace of the leatherback is somewhat flexible and almost rubbery to the touch. Ridges along the carapace help give it a more ...