Wander through your backyard or walk along a stream and it’s likely you’ll see a snail – small, squishy animals with shells on their backs. Snails are found in water, whether in salty oceans, rivers ...

Banana slugs stick to the substrate, thanks to their slime. Photo: Franco Folini. Watch a banana slug move across the leaf litter, or up a fencepost, and you’ll be surprised by the grace with which ...

TOKYO - Japanese researchers have identified two species of sea slugs that have the ability to detach their own heads from their bodies, move around and grow entirely new bodies. Ecologists from Nara ...