With the first tropical storm of hurricane season under our belts, I was thinking about animals that might truly enjoy the rainy, quasi-tropical weather that a large storm brings. Naturally, I thought ...

Even for the most ardent nature fan, it is all too easy to overlook slugs. Not only are they small, on the ground, and well, sluggish, they also don’t tend to please the average gardener. They eat ...

“Animal feces are also part of the diet of some slug species,” he says, which probably adds a certain pungency to a slug’s bouquet. One slug relative, the garlic snail, gets its name from the ...

Below the majestic trees and prehistoric ferns that grace California’s redwood forests lives a weird and slimy creature: the banana slug. Named for their bright yellow color, banana slugs aren’t that ...