A late-game position change served Elisco Mora and Watsonville High’s boys soccer team well on Wednesday. Mora was moved from ...

Nestled in the redwood forests of Santa Cruz, California, there’s a place where the laws of physics seem to take a vacation. Welcome to the Santa Cruz Mystery Spot, where water flows uphill, people ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species synonymous with California’s coastal redwood forests and the university's beloved ...

This method of locomotion, although effective in providing stability and traction, is inherently slow. A banana slug. Image via Depositphotos. The slow pace of slugs is partly due to their need to ...

Despite being slow and slimy, slugs and snails have an incredible appetite and need to constantly consume in order to survive. This means that your garden is a veritable smorgasbord of plants ...

Nothing is worse than going out to water your plants only to see chunks out of the leaves, and the main culprit tends to be hungry slugs. Slugs can be a problem in February as the wet weather is ...