zoology The wild world of solar-powered sea slugs Rusty Blazenhoff

sea creatures This carnivorous sea slug with a gooey, trap-like mouth looks like it arrived from a distant galaxy Mark Frauenfelder

amazing photography The best photo of a 'Shaun the Sheep' slug I've ever seen Jennifer Sandlin

Delightful Creatures Melibe viridis is a gelatinous hungry nudibranch Elías Villoro

Delightful Creatures "Please refrain from licking" toads, says National Park Service in unusual warning Carla Sinclair

david bowie These nudis look like David Bowie Thom Dunn

animals Watch a slug's self-decapitated head crawl around as it grows an entire new body David Pescovitz

Delightful Creatures Meet some bright pink animals Miss Cellania

parasites Hawaii reports three more cases of parasitic worms that burrow into human brains Mark Frauenfelder

Kids Beautiful film on the colorful diversity of nudibranchs Andrea James

Science New super-glue inspired by slug slime David Pescovitz

Barb Here's a makeup tutorial for a truly terrifying version of Barb from Stranger Things Caroline Siede

books Read: Strategic Dog Patterning, a story from "Why I Hunt Flying Saucers" Hugh AD Spencer

offworld Cultivate an alien garden on this sunless world Laura Hudson

Book Mollusk biologist describes how slugs make babies Mark Frauenfelder

video WATCH: You probably need more cute sea slugs in your life Andrea James

Got a 1943 copper penny? Don't spend it. Dan Lewis

The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection Mark Frauenfelder

Excerpts King of the Weeds: the final Mike Hammer novel Mickey Spillane