These sea slugs may look lazy, but eelgrass sea hares are actually environmental heroes.

Sea hares, similar to garden slugs but much larger, can be found off the La Jolla coast and in tide pools. They migrate only to find algae or seagrass to eat.

We have never seen such a huge one,” said Tatiana Lyu, the lady angler who bagged the mammoth mollusk last month.

Sea hares are gill-breathing, mostly herbivorous ocean dwellers that eat algae and seaweed. They are hermaphroditic, which means each individual can function as male or female.

Sea hares are hermaphrodites and have a male reproductive organ on the right side of the head and a female reproductive organ in the mantle cavity, the magazine states.

Texas Parks and Wildlife shares video of a squirming green blob identified as a sea hare, or sea slug, pulled out of Laguna Madre near Padre Island.

Sea hares are actually marine mollusks, but their shell is internal. They are often mistaken for the nudibranchs sometimes called sea slugs, but sea hares are related to them.

In the 1960s, neuroscientist Eric Kandel began a series of experiments on the California brown sea hare, a species of sea slug that looks as though it were dropped into the ocean from outer space ...