If you've ever watched an episode of Man vs Wild or Survivorman you know that the human body can digest some pretty wild stuff. Those programs show how surviving in the wild often means munching on ...

A Terrestrial snail sucker, a snake common to South America, has been caught feasting on an invasive bean slug in a car park in Mexico. This finding could lead to new methods of control for this ...

A friendly dare went terribly wrong eight years ago when 19-year-old Sam Ballard ate a slug that was carrying a deadly parasite that left him paralyzed. And now, after years of medical issues, the ...

Last week, Australian Sam Ballard died after an eight-year illness that all started with an unexpected assailant: a garden slug he swallowed on a dare. As a 19-year-old in 2010, the rugby player ...

Hawaii health officials have confirmed three new cases of rat lungworm disease, including one in a visitor who contracted the parasite after eating a slug on a dare. All of the newly identified cases ...

A man in Australia is dead after swallowing a slug in a harmless dare from friends. Sam Ballard died Friday almost a decade after he consumed a slug during the night of fun, Buzzfeed reported. He was ...

In 2010, Sam Ballard ate a garden slug on a dare from his friends during a birthday party. Ballard didn't know the slug was infected with rat lungworm, which is a parasite that can live in rats, slugs ...

Scientists found a 1-foot-long predator with yellow eyes in China and discovered a “cryptic” new species, a study said and photo shows. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto Under the cover of darkness, a ...

Scientists who have been developing a slug-hunting robot that could be powered by its prey are close to releasing a commercial model. The four-wheeled SlugBot, capable of identifying slugs and ...

Scientists found a 1-foot-long predator with “enlarged” yellow eyes in the bushes of a mountain in China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Getty/iStockphoto In the mountains of ...