The slug’s mouth, called a radula, has a species-specific arrangement of “special teeth” used for grinding up their food; The pneumostome is a breathing pore or respiratory opening found on …

Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc.

Mar 8, 2021 · The detached head of a sea slug (Elysia cf. marginata) glides by its still-living, leaf-shaped body a day after separation. That body, 80 percent of the animal’s weight, is out of luck.

Mar 9, 2021 · Two species of sea slugs can pop off their heads and regrow their entire bodies from the noggin down, scientists in Japan recently discovered. This incredible feat of …

It was "like a horror movie." That's how ecologist Sayaka Mitoh describes the scene at her lab at Nara Women's University in Japan one day when she was studying sea slugs. One of the …

Mar 13, 2025 · Have you ever heard of an animal that can cut off its own head and then regrow an entire new body? It sounds like something straight out of a science fiction movie, but it’s a …

Mar 8, 2021 · A sea slug’s head moves around three days after the invertebrate decapitated itself from its body. The body, still alive, reacts slightly when touched by the head. Video by Sayaka …

Mar 8, 2021 · Two species of sea slugs can pop off their heads and regrow their entire bodies from the noggin down, scientists in Japan recently discovered. This incredible feat of …

Biuve fulvipunctata, the white-speckled headshield slug, [5] is a species of sea slug or headshield slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusc in the family Aglajidae.

Mar 15, 2021 · Researcher Sayaka Mitoh discovered that among her university’s extensive collection of sacoglossan sea slugs—the largest in the world—one of the e lysia marginata …