Discover how the tropical velvet worm uses sticky slime for hunting, creating strong traps from its unique ball-to-fiber process. Within the fluid are “nanoglobules,” tiny balls made of lipids and ...

The fact that reversible polymer fibres can be drawn from the previously liquid secretion is a very interesting concept for researchers. It is quite possible that one day it will be possible to ...

Of all the bugs New Zealanders could have selected to win an international competition, they chose neither the prettiest, nor the most useful. The NZ velvet worm won this year’s New Zealand Bug of the ...

A new discovery about the slime ejected by velvet worms could revolutionize sustainable material design. The findings outline how a naturally occurring protein structure, conserved across species from ...

In March 2022, Stellenbosch University (SU) student Rohan Barnard was out on a farm in the Swartberg Mountains between Calitzdorp and Oudtshoorn, flipping over rocks looking for ants, reptiles and ...

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 ...