Velvet Worm
🔬 Animal Research Sheet

Velvet Worm

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📖 Read about me

The velvet worm, nearly unchanged in 500 million years, hunts by squirting two whipping streams of sticky slime from nozzles beside its mouth, gluing prey in a net. It then bites in, injects digestive saliva to liquefy the insides, and even eats its own dried slime to waste nothing.

🌍 Where do I live? (my habitat)

⚡ What is my superpower?

🤯 One weird TRUE fact I learned

🔎 How do scientists KNOW this?

(Hint: look for clues in the facts — did they film it, measure it, or test it?)

✏️ Draw me!

❓ One question I still have

Wild Zoo Facts · https://wildzoofacts.com/animals/velvet-worm/ — read the full facts, watch the video, and check your answers.