Not all slime is created equal. A species of land snails tweaks its slime’s chemical recipe to create five different varieties of mucus, using each for a particular job. Depending on the amount of ...

Snails are particularly active after a rain shower. Even on the Max Planck Campus in Potsdam-Golm, common brown-lipped snails (Cepaea nemoralis) leave behind shiny trails of mucus. Researchers from ...

The mucus excreted by snails is a multifunctional biomaterial that acts as a slippery lubricant to aid movement while also functioning as an adhesive that allows them to stick to surfaces. Scientists ...

A garden snail crawls along the rough surface of a tree. A garden snail (Cepaea nemoralis) in the Max Planck Campus in Potsdam, Germany. Snail mucus can be slippery or sticky, depending on its ...