Losing your body from the neck down can be just another one of life’s annoying, but temporary, setbacks — at least for two kinds of rippling, green-tinged sea slugs. That’s the first time ...

Most of us can barely recover from a bad haircut, but there are two species of sea slugs that can literally regrow their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hawaiʻi is considered the epicenter of rat lungworm disease, which is spread when people accidentally consume snails and ...

the head surprised everyone by surviving long enough to grow a whole new body. How? Well, it seemed they’d gone solar-powered. Among the Sacoglossan sea slugs, we see a phenomenon known as ...

The yellow-brown slug, which lives under stones, gets its name from the lumpy shapes all over its body. Shoresearch is The Wildlife Trusts' national citizen science survey of the intertidal shore.