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rare
Velvet Worm
Euperipatoides rowelli
- Habitat
- Cool, damp rotting logs of southeastern Australian temperate forests
- Body length
- 40 mm
- Order
- Euonychophora · Peripatopsidae
Weird but real
It hunts by firing twin jets of quick-hardening glue slime that ensnare prey mid-stride in a sticky net.
Why it's cool
A 500-million-year-old walking-worm oddity that lives in social packs and squirts glue guns from its face.
