From movement to mating signals, slug slime plays a vital role in survival and explains those silvery garden trails.

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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, sluggish, they also don’t tend to please the average gardener. They eat ...

Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." Banana slugs are ...

Slime research may not be the sexiest science, but produces some truly wild results. So wild, in fact, a new study reconfigures our understanding of not only animal intelligence, but also the very ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Myxomycetes, or slime molds, are fungus-like organisms that have ...

Sixty-five years ago this month, an iconic horror movie made a star out of Steve McQueen and showed disappointingly little of its titular character. That movie, The Blob, involves a goo that crashes ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species synonymous with California’s coastal redwood forests and the university’s beloved ...