Imagine biologist Sayaka Mitoh’s surprise the day she found that a sea slug in her lab was suddenly missing its body. Or its head, really—depends on your perspective. Either way, the sea slug was in ...

Slugs. They eat your lettuces, chew your cabbages, defoliate your dahlias and assassinate your asters. Even the name “slug” is unpleasant. It comes from the Middle English “slugge”, from a Norwegian ...

Slugs are commonly seen as slow-moving, slimy creatures that live in gardens, but the biology of slugs is actually quite complex. As a soft-bodied creature, slugs are classified as a gastropod, ...