Another group of scientists, intrigued by the banana slug’s ability to thrive in California’s redwood forest, have sought to create slug-inspired architecture, equally adapted to the redwood ...

Nudibranchs, commonly known as sea slugs, are a group of shell-less marine molluscs. Their name means 'naked gill', referring to the breathing apparatus on the outside of their soft bodies. Dorid ...

‘They’re an unnoticed part of our biodiversity, so it’s my mission to make people look around and see the snails and slugs that live around them,’ he adds. After arthropods, molluscs – the group that ...

Chiel's lab found that while sensory feedback reduced individuality across a group of slugs, the feedback increased variability within individuals. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

But regrowing a whole new body is unheard of. These sea slugs belong to a group called sacoglossans. Not only can they regrow an entirely new body, but their heads can also survive for weeks ...