Slugs move oxygen throughout their bodies, as other animals do, but they do so without lungs. How is this possible?

In the shallow marine waters off of the coasts of Japan, Philippines, you can find these adorable little creatures floating about in their magical underworld. They are Leaf Sheep.They are one of the ...

Even for the most ardent nature fan, it is all too easy to overlook slugs. Not only are they small, on the ground, and well, ...

Part animal, part plant, bright green, and totally bizarre: Meet the sea slug Elysia chlorotica. Biologists already knew that this organism, native to the marshes of New England and Canada, was a ...

A GHOSTLY new species of sea slug has been discovered in the ‘midnight zone’ – more than 7,000ft below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute ...

Even the meeting of lips can become an aggressive act in the animal kingdom. When humans come lip to lip, the result is a ...

*Speaking of humans with viruses for brains, what the heck gives with a mollusc that can photosynthesize? No, it doesn't have algae on board, it IS a freaking algae plant. "SEATTLE — It’s easy being ...

Slugs are slow, and this makes them easy targets for predators however big or small they might be. Here, we see that a slug has been spotted by a hungry colony of driver ants, and the slug is ...

Slugs. They’re slimy. They’re sticky. And they make some people squirm. The largest type of slug in the United States, named for its yellow body, is the banana slug. Some banana slugs also have brown ...

Photos of Costasiella kuroshimae, a.k.a. the “leaf sheep” sea slug, have recently gone viral on Twitter again, and for good reason. The leaf sheep doesn’t just have an absurdly cute name, it also has ...

Slugs. They’re slimy. They’re sticky. And they make some people squirm. The largest type of slug in the United States, named for its yellow body, is the banana slug. Some banana slugs also have brown ...