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Researchers with the Harte Research Institute say blue dragons, tiny blue sea slugs with a painful sting, are washing up again along Texas beaches as spring winds push offshore marine life onto shore.—Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 11 Mar. 2026 Along with tiny sea slugs, elegant birds and strange, fuzzy flowers, the marine oddity is just one of 72 species of plants, animals and fungi discovered by researchers at the California Academy of Sciences last year.—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2026 The divers found a swath of ocean populated by weird and wild creatures, from delicate corals and shimmering worms to spiky sea slugs and hairy crabs.—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025 She is fascinated by a tiny creature known as a nudibranch, more popularly called sea slugs.—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sea slug