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 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, ...

Maps created as part of Defra-funded Slimers project allowed test growers to halve amount of slug pellets used Farmers believe they have a new weapon in their age-old battle against the slugs that ...