In 2010 at a friend’s party, strapping 19-year-old rugby player Sam Ballard swallowed a garden slug as a dare. A group of young friends were sitting around at a table drinking red wine when a slug was ...

Marine creatures house contraband structures in special organelles, which the animal raids for food in times of need. “It was the wildest thing that we had seen,” says study co-author Nicholas Bellono ...