Eventually, one slug crawls off and the other follows, eating the mucus trapeze as it goes. The astonishing sex lives of leopard slugs, or Limax maximus, have long been recognized by naturalists and ...

Courting is as unique to a species as dietary habits or dwelling. Some mating rituals seem almost aggressive, while others are dance-like and graceful. They can even be beautifully intimate, mimicking ...

Slugs may look like they are fighting in videos seen online, but it is actually an intense mating ritual. Slugs can mate with anyone within their own species, as they have both male and female ...

An Australian sea slug uses a spike to inject fluid into the head of its mate during intercourse, researchers have found. THERE ARE MANY WEIRD mating practices in the animal kingdom, but researchers ...

Cats may bite, and geese may have barbed penises, but one newly described hermaphroditic sea slug has taken violent animal sex to a new level by stabbing its mates in the head. The perpetrator of this ...

Female sea slugs mate more frequently than required to produce offspring, despite the highly traumatic and biologically costly nature of their copulation, as reported Aug. 22 in the open access ...

Giant Spanish slugs have been mating with their British counterparts to create a mutant strain of "superslugs". The Spanish molluscs are thought to have arrived in the UK in salads during the summer ...

The ocean is their playground — and fortunately for us, sea creatures put on amazing shows this year that were captured on camera for the world to see. There were the animals readers flipped over, ...