In its final shotgun form, the K-441 holds four .410 shells loaded up with birdshot or slugs. The barrel indexing is done manually, but this device does have a safety, so it has that going for it ...

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Shotgun shells are cartridges made specifically for shotguns, containing small pellets or a slug, which is a solid projectile ...

Yet shell-less slugs have evolved from snails more than a dozen separate times, one clue being that some slug families are closer to snails than to other slugs. Slugs can teach us about evolution.

‘I’m always amazed that people hate slugs so much. I don’t know what a shell does to a snail to make it lovable,’ says Jon. Slugs actually do have a shell, but it’s internal. Their shell has been ...

Were there shells? Does a gooey slug even fossilize? Turns out the answer is no, no, yes, as demonstrated by an incredible fossil slug that’s half a billion years old. The fossil is Shishania ...

Yet shell-less slugs have evolved from snails more than a dozen separate times, one clue being that some slug families are closer to snails than to other slugs. Slugs can teach us about evolution.

Home remedies used to deter slugs and snails from prized plants appear to have no scientific basis. Using the likes of grit or egg shells to guard against slug attack did not reduce damage to ...

Some of the worst are mollusks. Snails and slugs are notorious plant attackers. Tomato plants don’t stand a chance when these beasts come to town. Some folks would reach for the pesticide or ...

Slugs. They eat your lettuces, chew your cabbages, defoliate your dahlias and assassinate your asters. Even the name "slug" is unpleasant. It comes from the Middle English "slugge", from a ...

Gastropods include sea slugs such as nudibranchs, and one genus of slug lives in freshwater. Some slugs have a much reduced external shell but in most cases it is there internally. So today’s slugs ...