In 1986, magazine devoted a full page to a story about the newly crowned Slug mascot at UCSC. Invitations to Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer’s retirement reception, on June 5, 1987, included a cartoon ...

A fun time-lapse video of a banana slug eating a dandelion has gained millions of views after R Jeanette Martin found the slug in his backyard at Gabriola Island, British Columbia. The short ...

The banana slug has been the official logo of UCSC since 1986 when the students ousted the sea lion at the chagrin of then chancellor of the school. The slug had long served as the unofficial ...