The trail of slime can often imperil or slow down attackers such as Pacific giant salamanders and northwestern garter snakes—common banana slug predators. When ingested, the slime can make ...

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Not many details were known at first, but it revolved around an upcoming major feature film and the school’s controversial student-chosen mascot, the banana slug.The revered gastropod ...

You’ve probably beheld a bright yellow banana slug on a hike in the Santa Cruz Mountains or perhaps even in your own backyard. But now, the beautiful banana slug is officially the California ...

A banana slug moves on fallen redwood leaves and sticks in the Cascade Creek property near Pescadero in 2019. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) Originally Published: October 13, 2024 at 10:37 a.m.

Gavin Newsom on Friday. State legislation now decrees that California's official crustacean is the Dungeness crab, the state slug is the banana slug and the official seashell is the black abalone.