A banana slug (Ariolimax columbianus) on a fern in Redwood National Park in California. The tips of the upper tentacles have ...

This week, a friend sent me our horoscope—we’re both Gemini—from Seven Days, a beloved Vermont weekly, because, improbably, it was about the sea slug I’d been telling her about just days before. “The ...

Behold the slug and you behold a teenager, in all of her magic and power Slugs have not inspired much poetry – though this line from Brian Swann is nice: “Turn them over, they’re the soles of new ...

At least two species of sacoglossan sea slugs are capable of severing their own heads from their bodies and then growing an entirely new body, including a heart and other internal organs. The authors ...

A researcher finds some types of slugs can completely regenerate their body after self-decapitating as a method of surviving disease. Look; we've all heard of extreme makeovers, but slugs take that ...