The banana slug has a single lung, which has an external breathing pore, and it eats with its radula, a tongue-like body part that’s covered in rows of microscopic teeth. Like all gastropods ...

The "sea slug" is a nudibranch that glows, swims, and has an apple-sized body with a paddle-like tail and a large gelatinous ...

Sam Ballard, who died at the age of 28, ate a slug at a friend's party for a dare while still a teenager. The consequences ...

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 ...

Slugs were the inspiration for a new kind of ... The "bio-glue" is incredibly strong, moves with the body and crucially, sticks to wet surfaces. The team at Harvard University have even used ...

Intertwining together, the two slugs locked into a tight corkscrew formation ... From behind their large mantles (a section of their body right behind their head), two penises emerged, almost ...

The animal kingdom gets quite competitive when it comes to penises, sprouting designs meant to scoop out any rival sperm that’s still lingering in the vagina. Often this comes in the form of ...

The sea slug has distinctive feathery gills on one side of its body A new species of sea slug has been discovered in UK waters. It was caught off the south-west of England from a research ship.