Mary Bates, PhD

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How the Velvet Worm Shoots Its Slime Web

Photo: Geoff Gallice, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0  license.Velvet worms shoot slime at their prey to immobilize it before chowing down. Now scientists have figured out how they manage to produce rapid, oscillating webs of mucus, without super-fast muscles.Read the whole story at National Geographic's Weird & Wild blog: Bizarre Velvet Worms Shoot Slime Jets - Now We Know How.