Even beyond sea slugs, the Elysia chlorotica is the first animal thus far known to photosynthesize. The Elysia chlorotica ...

Banana slugs are decomposers and play an important role in their ecosystem. They eat detritus (dead organic matter), including fallen leaves and plants, animal feces, moss, and mushroom spores ...

The animal belongs to a genus of air-breathing marine slugs called Peronia, according to a study published March 12 in the peer-reviewed journal Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. When researcher Adam B ...

While mating, as both slugs possess male and female reproductive organs, they proceed to insert their penises into each other ...

Watching a nudibranch eat isn’t, at first glance, all that different from watching a slug on a leaf. But if the nudibranch is feeding on a venomous animal, what is happening is actually very ...

But the sea slugs in the group Aeolida are practically impervious to these spiny javelins, despite their soft bodies. The aeolid animals employ a coating of chitin, a glucose derivative, in the front ...

Incredibly, the UK is home to the largest land slug in the world – the ash-black ... most intricate and elaborate mating rituals in the animal kingdom. As a crew, we were aware of the mating ...

Not all animal horror films are created equal ... But one addition to the category is just flat out brutal. The 1988 film Slugs lives up to the genre by supplying fans with a creepy-crawly ...