Meet the sea butterfly. Unlike most species of zooplankton that occupy the all-important base of the marine food web, this sea snail earned its nickname by behaving more like an insect, fluttering its ...

Angels are making their way to beaches across the Delmarva Peninsula by way of the Clione limacina, more commonly known as the naked sea butterfly or sea angel. A flurry of social media posts have ...

Is it a butterfly? A bee? An alien? Nope! It’s a sea snail. A sea snail. From the sea. This aptly-named Arctic “sea butterfly” (Limacina helicina) is the subject of a new study in the Journal of ...

This tiny sea butterfly spends its days floating in the ocean, feeding on plankton FLOATING THROUGH THE ocean like a lonely spacecraft on a mission to smother its transparent hull in stars, Corolla ...

Sea butterflies are snails that have inverted themselves. Instead of using their flesh (via a foot) to crawl on the sea floor, they turned upside down and make their protruding bodies into “wings.” ...

Let’s hear it for the pteropod, or sea butterfly — the tiny creatures that spend their days drifting aimlessly through the ocean. The bad news: Their days could be numbered. Besides being majestic and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Some ocean-dwelling creatures ended up with common names that seem to belong to another animal ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...