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 ...

Snails may move slowly, but the mucus they produce is far more sophisticated than it looks. It has been revealed how grove snails can fine-tune this sticky substance for different purposes.

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 ...

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 ...