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 ...

Until recently, the main threat to the lives of sea butterflies, tiny snails with winglike lobes that float in ocean currents, had been the fish and birds that rely on them as an important source ...

Sea butterflies, also known as pteropods, are related to snails but they use their muscular foot to swim through the ocean rather than creep along the ground. Osborn snapped them in a shallow tank ...

It looks like fiberglass. It feels like fiberglass, but it's an animal called sea butterflies. They don't fly, they're not pretty, but these tiny creatures can hurt. "It gets stuck in your bathing ...

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 ...

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 ...