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 ...

The limacina helicnia, part of the 'sea butterfly' family, was filmed swimming in super-slow-motion by Dr David Murphy, a researcher from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Analysing the footage ...

The study finds that corrosive water off the U.S. West Coast is dissolving the shells of a marine snail, also known as a sea butterfly, that is a key player in the coastal food chain. Researchers ...