The Pacific Northwest is home to a group of rare species you’ve probably never heard of. Their name alone might horrify or delight you: jumping slugs. Environmentalists and the federal government are ...

Aug. 1—An unusually wet, cool summer has made Southcentral Alaska a particularly hospitable place for an invasive slug species that appears to have made a home in Anchorage's Hillside. Scientists are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three new sightings of the invasive black velvet leatherleaf slug have been reported on the Coast in April and May, bringing the ...

The next time you head to the coast to enjoy the Tampa Bay waters, you may stumble upon a Pierce’s Cyerce – a recently discovered sea slug species that is being named after Sidney “Skip” Pierce, ...

As you will soon discover, most slugs subsist on decaying plant matter; they eat fungi, algae, dead leaves, and organic detritus. That said, some slug species prefer a little more protein in their ...