The free event featured a fashion show, talent competition and more at the Saturday Market Pavilion from 6 to 9 p.m. on ...

Eugene’s longest-running alternative pageant returns Friday, as the Society for the Legitimization of the Ubiquitous ...

On Aug. 8, the S.L.U.G. Queens will gather once again to continue their tradition of crowning the unofficial goodwill ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- It wasn't easy, but 25 years after the birth of the Society for the Legitimization of the Ubiquitous Gastropod (SLUG) and the crowning of Queen Bruce, the first Slug Queen, Eugene ...

Symbiosis may be more important to evolution than scientists once thought.

The slug digests the rest of the cell but keeps the chloroplasts—the plant organelles responsible for photosynthesis—and distributes these green orbs through its branched gut.

A certain species of sea slug steals chloroplasts from algae and houses its contraband in special organelles that it can raid for food in times of need ...

‘Wildest thing’: solar-powered slug steals chloroplasts and stores them for emergencies Marine creatures house contraband structures in special organelles, which the animal raids for food in ...

You've probably heard the Volkswagen Beetle being called a bug, but why are they sometimes called slug bugs, and how do you play the game associated with them?

In 2019, the titular parade slug that belonged to Eugene’s S.L.U.G Queens died. Kind of. A huge papier-mâché slug carried by 20 to 30 people each year in the Eugene Parade, she tragically fell ...

Brenn DeGross has lived in Eugene for seven years, but they only found out about the SLUG Queen (Society for the Legitimization of the Ubiquitous Gastropod) Competition and Coronation about three ...

The second incarnation of the giant slug inches down a damp Charnelton Street as parade-goers do their best to keep dry during the Eugene Celebration Parade in 2009.