‘I love snails and slugs! I just think they’re fascinating,’ says Jon Ablett, our Curator of Molluscs. ‘They’re an unnoticed part of our biodiversity, so it’s my mission to make people look around and ...

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute scientists have discovered Bathydevius caudactylus, a new species of glowing sea slug that lives deep in the ocean.

Slugs can be very destructive if they're not controlled in some way, however despite there being around 40 species of slugs in the UK, only a small fraction of these pose problems for gardeners ...

They are "super interesting", and often overlooked, she added. There are more than 40 species of slug currently found in the UK, with only a small number of these considered as pest species.

Their name means 'naked gill', referring to the breathing apparatus on the outside of their soft bodies. But these slugs aren't joking around. Some species of nudibranch have turned to a life of crime ...

One of the three even lost and regrew its body twice. Two different species of Japanese sea slugs did this regeneration trick. Other creatures can cast off body parts when needed, like when some ...