A peculiar predator skulks across the forest floor. It’s dreadfully slow, but the cover of darkness — and leaf litter — keeps it hidden. It glides along dozens of stumpy legs, but it’s no centipede: ...

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 ...

Over the 500 million years that the velvet worm has existed, it's learned a few tricks. Most impressively: Velvet worms can shoot strings of goo Spiderman-like from their mouths to entangle their prey ...

Small bugs of the rain forest have many things to worry about, assuming they are capable of anxiety. But surely some of their more feared predators are velvet worms, a group of ancient animals that ...

Scientists have described the first new species of Ecuadorian velvet worm in more than 100 years. Named the Tiputini velvet worm (Oroperipatus tiputini), it was discovered in the lowland forests of ...

The velvet worm hunts by bombarding its prey with a double barreled burst of slime. Now, scientists have figured out how these ooze-cannons work. GIF via NatGeoWild. Researchers led by Andrés Concha, ...

Peripatopsis barnardi represents the first ever species from the little Karoo, which indicates that the area was historically more forested than at present. It is one of seven new species from the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For decades, X-ray computer tomography (CT) scanning has enabled scientists to noninvasively ...