If your garden is under attack by slugs, a simple solution can help get rid of the pests - and it all revolves around a piece ...

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During a tour of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Corey Allard noticed something strange: fish ...

Adult leopard slugs are both male and female, have a tonguelike organ with 150 rows of microscopic, backward pointing teeth … ...

Slugs, on the other hand, do not have an external shell like the snail, but they do have an internal shell. This structure is very important as it gives the slug an important source of calcium.

He added: “You can try more traditional home-made remedies, such as baked, crushed egg shells, grit, ash or soot which are variable in their effectiveness.” Slugs are less likely to cross soil ...

Under a global claim, the Bille and Ogale communities would have had to prove that Shell was responsible for 100 per cent of the pollution that has impacted their environment, according to Leigh ...

State legislation now decrees that California's official crustacean is the Dungeness crab, the state slug is the banana slug ... which established the shell of the black abalone as California's ...

It provides protection from predators as they can retreat inside their shell if they feel threatened. Slugs actually evolved from snails and as a result, have an internal shell of their own.

Yet shell-less slugs have evolved from snails more than a dozen separate times, one clue being that some slug families are closer to snails than to other slugs. Slugs can teach us about evolution.

Were there shells? Does a gooey slug even fossilize? Turns out the answer is no, no, yes, as demonstrated by an incredible fossil slug that’s half a billion years old. The fossil is Shishania ...