In the shallow marine waters off of the coasts of Japan, Philippines, you can find these adorable little creatures floating about in their magical underworld. They are Leaf Sheep.They are one of the ...

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 ...

*Speaking of humans with viruses for brains, what the heck gives with a mollusc that can photosynthesize? No, it doesn't have algae on board, it IS a freaking algae plant. "SEATTLE — It’s easy being ...

The hair curler slug sighting demonstrates the changes underway in our oceans. They are warming as a result of excess ...

A green sea slug appears to be part animal, part plant. It's the first critter discovered to produce the plant pigment chlorophyll. The sneaky slugs seem to have stolen the genes that enable this ...

Slugs are slow, and this makes them easy targets for predators however big or small they might be. Here, we see that a slug has been spotted by a hungry colony of driver ants, and the slug is ...

In the waters of the western Pacific drift odd bits of seaweed that look like grapes. But look carefully: Impeccably hidden sea slugs lie among this algae, cloaked in what look like green capes. For ...

If you live in an urban environment, it might seem like the animals you see every day—birds, bugs, squirrels—have adapted perfectly fine to city life. The team combed through years of iNaturalist data ...

Some of the most interesting—and possibly strangest—scientific discoveries happen by accident. According to the New York Times, Sayaka Mitoh, a Ph.D. candidate at Nara Women's University in Japan, was ...

The California quail, majestic redwoods and glowing orange poppy can now welcome two animal icons to the state’s lineup of official symbols: Dungeness crab and banana slugs. On Friday, Gov. Gavin ...