Before clicking play on the video below, which features a “monkey slug” caterpillar, we recommend clearing your schedule for about 15 minutes or so afterward. Because once you witness the monkey slug, ...

Aug. 31—With nine wiggly appendages, hairy body and suction cup feet, the larval stage of the hag moth is so unique it looks like a tiny extra from a science fiction movie. In reality, it's one of the ...

A monkey slug caterpillar crawls across a rail in video from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission’s Facebook page. Screengrab from FWC Facebook page No, that clump of hair isn’t walking on its own ...

A monkey with ghostly white circles around its eyes is among 224 new species listed in the World Wildlife Fund's latest update on the greater Mekong region. The conservation group's report, released ...

A monkey that lives on the edge of an extinct volcano, an amphibian that breathes through its skin and an armored slug are among the 503 new species named by London’s Natural History Museum this year.

Can you make heads or tails of these two colorful beasties? They’re caterpillars of a kind of moth called a slug moth – so called because their legs are covered with suction cups, so they move like ...