The velvet worm is pretty cute as invertebrate predators go. A leathery rope of an animal with a fuzzy, velvet-like texture. It has two antennae making it look a bit like Zuul, but when it’s ...

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Imagine a caterpillar with soft, fancy, velvety skin; that’s what a velvet worm looks like. However, unlike most caterpillars, these worms are fierce carnivores. They hunt by shooting sticky slime to ...

A team of researchers at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and The Environment (ATREE) had reported rediscovering a long-lost species of the velvet worms (phylum Onychophora), one of the ...

The Santa Ana winds were already blowing hard when I ran the first worm simulation. I’m no hacker, but it was easy enough: Open a Terminal shell, paste some commands from GitHub, watch ...

Typhloperipatus williamsoni, a unique species of velvet worm, has resurfaced from the Eastern Himalayas more than a century after it was last seen. Velvet worms, scientifically known as Onychophora, ...

Imagine a caterpillar with soft, fancy, velvety skin; that’s what a velvet worm looks like. However, unlike most caterpillars, these worms are fierce carnivores. They hunt by shooting sticky ...

But the most significant finding so far is not a new species, but the sighting of a particular velvet worm that caught the eye of the Abor scientists a century ago. Typhloperipatus williamsoni was ...

Also found on a submarine canyon floor: a deep-sea worm sometimes called a "disco worm," but scientifically known as a polychaete (which means “many bristles”), glittering like sparkly steel wool.

(Annapurna Interactive aptly describes Teen’s furry helper as being “a very cute dog.”) The episodic tale opens with an upbeat song about the game (not to be confused with “The Giraffe ...