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[–] [email protected] 160 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

National geographic (2 minute read)

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for being the commenter you hoped to find but couldn't and are instead the commenter i hoped to find and did.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Exactly, thanks, dude.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We need more people like you. Thx g, appreciate the link as well 🙌

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What makes it harden? Is it nonnewtonian? Does it impale its prey?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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