I came here hoping to read more about this worm and its slime guns but no one did much yet so i had to look it up and now I’ve become the commenter i hoped to find? I hope the mildly interested people following after me find this cool:
The slime is incredible stuff. It leaves the worm’s nozzles as twin streams of sticky liquid. But once it touches the target, it hardens almost immediately into a stiff, hard gel that is neither sticky nor soluble in water. It’s an incredible transformation and for the prey, it’s a fatal one. By ‘milking’ an Australian velvet worm called Euperipatoides rowelli and studying its slime, Haritos has discovered that its properties come from a special type of chaotic protein.
Chaos Bolt! Man this worm is cool.
Thank you for being the commenter you hoped to find but couldn’t and are instead the commenter i hoped to find and did.
Exactly, thanks, dude.
We need more people like you. Thx g, appreciate the link as well 🙌
What makes it harden? Is it nonnewtonian? Does it impale its prey?
Its been a bit since i read it now but i think hitting the air makes it dry very quickly (something having to do with the chaotic shape of the proteins in the “beam”). Its a quick read if you want to check my memory
According to Wikipedia it’s actually a slime attack, so let’s not get too excited. God’s favorite beast is still probably the Platypus.
Have you seen the number of beetle species?
God’s favorite critters are beetles for sure
Platypus seems more like, “Let’s see how many features I can cram in something before it breaks people’s immersion.”
Hey Jesus, wanna build something with the spares box? It’s full with all the weird stuff I couldn’t fit into the other animals.
Velvet worm used Slime Gun
It’s super effective!
Honestly though those action shots are cool AF
Yeah but they don’t show how random it is.
In these still shots they look like focused beams but in reality they just spray that shit all over the place.
Edit: Found a video.
“I swear this never happens,” lies the velvet worm assessing the slime that’s everywhere
This is clearly Caterpie using string shot.
It’s cool…but it’s not shark with lasers on its head cool
Imagine if those little fuckers were like 20 feet long.
Uh, I have bad news for you…
Yeah yeah wise ass. I meant like 6.096 metres.
The joke was thet they are but you didn’t know. Hidden horror kinda joke.
I’d kinda Iove it if they were. If there was remote island in South Asia where the BIG ones lived.
We could summon it by having tiny twins sing its name.
“Ooooooooh BETTY!?!?!”
If we start the selective breeding now, we could be there in a couple hundred years!
Are they that slow?
