A new discovery about the slime ejected by velvet worms could revolutionize sustainable material design, according to a study by McGill University researchers. Their findings outline how a naturally ...

New Zealand’s Bug of the Year competition has crowned an ancient, bizarre, and surprisingly savage predator as its 2024 champion: the New Zealand velvet worm (Peripatoides novaezealandiae). This ...

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 ...

A velvet worm (Epiperipatus acacioi) unfurls its folded mouth papillae—one of which is shown here—to squirt an oscillating jet of slime for prey capture and self-defense. (Scale bar = 100 microns) ...