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

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 ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

Chromodoris reticulata, native to the Pacific, engages in mating behavior unknown in the rest of the animal kingdom. Image via Stephen Childs Even in the utterly dry language of science, there is no ...

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 ...