Slugs don’t seem like the type of animals capable of duking it out. However, a funny Instagram post by @tiny.sanctuary shows what appears to be a fight between two particularly aggressive slugs. But ...

The sea slug is bright green, shaped like a leaf and doing something very few animals can: harnessing the power of the sun.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the key differences between plants and animals is the presence of chloroplasts in cells. Plants have chloroplasts, and ...

The video above takes viewers beneath the waters off Bali, Indonesia, where a truly unusual marine animal glides across the seafloor. At first glance, it looks almost unreal — soft, translucent, and ...

Even for the most ardent nature fan, it is all too easy to overlook slugs. Not only are they small, ground-dwelling, and, ...

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 ...

A single night of spring rain can transform a quiet garden into a slow-moving feast. Leaves that looked flawless yesterday suddenly show ragged holes, seedlings disappear at the soil line, and shiny ...

Studying sea slugs in the group Sacoglossa can mean being on the receiving end of some very imaginative emails. Sidney K. Pierce, of the University of South Florida, retired a few years ago. “But to ...

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 ...

There’s nothing like that first spring salad you’ve been babying for weeks. And there’s nothing like walking out one damp morning to find every leaf lace-worked with holes and shiny trails everywhere.