Singer Stevie Nicks announced that between her already-announced joint concerts with Billy Joel, she will have a lineup of ...

Beatrix LeBeau is great a slime ranching. She’s so good that she’s sort of famous? At least, someone noticed, because a mysterious letter invited her to the Rainbow Islands. It’s a haven ...

To avoid dehydration, gastropods secrete a layer of mucus, or slime, which covers their bodies. While snails have shells to help protect their skin from drying out, slugs must find other ways to ...

Slippery, slimy, encased in an unenticing coat of mucus ... by laying and following slime trails. One reason humans do not much care for slugs is undoubtedly their sliminess.

The Hagfish Is the Slimy Sea Creature of Your Nightmares The hagfish is a slime-emitting ocean-dweller that's remained unchanged for 300 million years--and it shows. It has a skull (but no spine ...

Its structure acts more like a fine sieve that slows water down rather than a coherent gel. Hagfish slime is much more dilute than mucus secretions of other animals. If the mucins in hagfish slime ...