In March 2022, Stellenbosch University (SU) student Rohan Barnard was out on a farm in the Swartberg Mountains between Calitzdorp and Oudtshoorn, flipping over rocks looking for ants, reptiles and ...
The velvet worms were collected from the Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil, researchers said. Photo by PROJETO CAFÉ GATO-MOURISCO on Unsplash A tiny, velvety creature hidden beneath grass roots scurried ...
A tiny, velvety creature hidden beneath grass roots scurried on its 28 pairs of legs through in a rainforest in Brazil — and right into the hands of researchers. It was a new species of velvet worm, ...