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 ...

It’s slimy, yellow, and slow–and it’s one of the best mascots in the country. UCSC’s Banana Slug mascot has been named one of the 10 best team nicknames in college basketball by ESPN Sports Travel.

Such was the case with UC Santa Cruz’s mascot, the banana slug. On Tuesday the Westside campus celebrated its beloved yellow mollusk, now in its 25th year as the school’s official representative.

July 29, 2024--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Every banana has its day in the sun. Christened today in the museum’s Department of Mascot Studies Gallery and continuing through Sept. 30, 2024, "Bobby Banana ...

Jumball III, the Watermelon King, is the mascot of Forest Grove's sister city Nyuzen, Japan. Courtesy of Melody Tsukahara Jumball III, the watermelon king, rules with an impenetrable shell but a ...