Velvet worms like this one “sneeze” out a sticky goo with intriguing properties. The velvet worm, a squishy little predator that looks like the stretch-limo version of a caterpillar, has a whimsical ...

Tube worms are ancient creatures that can be found near hydrothermal vents on the seafloor. They don't mind the pressure or lack of sunlight, and they have no mouth or digestive tract. Bacteria that ...

Slime time: A velvet worm producing slime. (Courtesy: Poulhazan A et al. 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c06798 The ...

That’s a velvet worm. You can see what happens when you poke it. It squirts slime all over to catch prey, fend off predators and poking fingers. A Chilean scientist studying at Harvard wondered ...

In the tropical, temperate forests it calls home, the velvet worm uses a projectile “slime” to capture its prey. When it’s ejected from the worm, the slime transforms into a gel before solidifying ...

A discovery by international researchers suggests slime produced by Australian velvet worms could underpin new sustainable materials. A mucous-like substance from bizarre creatures known as velvet ...

The velvet worm hunts by night. The sun would dry it up and kill it, is the problem. But the worm doesn't see very well. Or hear very well. So to maximize its chances of catching dinner, it sprays ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Scientists have discovered that the ancient velvet worm uses a glue unlike anything seen before in nature. The glue, which is easy to replicate, could have a range of applications, such as a medical ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 18 (UPI) --If you think Nickelodeon invented the slime attack, think again. The slime attack originated as a much more sinister deed, carried out by an unassuming tropical warm ...

One of the animal kingdom’s more non-exclusive semantic clubs is that of the worms. Are you “any of a number of creeping or burrowing invertebrate animals with long, slender, soft bodies and no limbs, ...