Life has certain rules and patterns. Plants, with their incredible ability to harness the sun’s energy, don’t go roaming around. They don’t need to. But animals, lacking the wondrous power of ...

The Simpsons recently blew up the internet with its 36th season finale flash-forward, which led many (too many!) people to mistakenly believe that the Fox comedy had killed off beloved matriarch Marge ...

This colourful creature is no alien, but it is a long way from home. For the first time, the presence of a type of tropical sea slug has been confirmed by scientists in UK waters. Spurilla neapolitana ...

Sept. 9 (UPI) --Police in Germany were called to an apartment building on a report of someone repeatedly ringing doorbells late at night and discovered the ding-dong-ditch culprit was a slug.

Walk into Borroum’s Drug Store in Corinth, Mississippi, and you’ll find all the trappings of a bygone-era pharmacy: swivel stools, a soda fountain, and a menu of lunch-counter classics like ...

Video of the sea bunny—taken last year—has gone viral on the internet this week. Watch as they (very) slowly make their way across the seafloor. Say hello to this week's Internet overlord, the ...

This week, a friend sent me our horoscope—we’re both Gemini—from Seven Days, a beloved Vermont weekly, because, improbably, it was about the sea slug I’d been telling her about just days before. “The ...

SOME SEA slugs are kleptomaniacs. Elysia crispata, a species of these marine molluscs found in the western Atlantic and the Caribbean, is among the most notorious. When the slugs eat algae, their ...

A certain species of sea slug steals chloroplasts from algae and houses its contraband in special organelles that it can raid for food in times of need “It was the wildest thing that we had seen,” ...

Marine creatures house contraband structures in special organelles, which the animal raids for food in times of need. “It was the wildest thing that we had seen,” says study co-author Nicholas Bellono ...

It started with a bizarre burning sensation in her feet. Over the next two days, the searing pain crept up her legs. Any light touch made it worse, and over-the-counter pain medicine offered no relief ...

In 2000, scientists spotted a bioluminescent mollusk in the deep sea. The animal was so unique that they had no idea what it was until they did genetic testing. It turned out to be a new species of ...