Mr. Nature: The Walking Worm

It’s not a worm, it’s not an insect–in fact, scientists still don’t know what it is for sure.

Presenting the Peripatus, aka the Velvet Worm, aka the Walking Worm. There are many species living throughout the Southern Hemisphere and around the Equator. They’re small, they come out mostly at night, and they creep around the leaf litter–so they aren’t often seen.

Jambo! This is Mr. Nature, with more of God’s stuff. We have plenty of fossils of various walking worms, and those look just like the worms we have today. They’ve had all that time–half a billion years! say the Darwinists–to evolve into Gender Studies professors, and look at ’em: they’re still walking worms.

Well, heck–they’re good at being walking worms, they’ve got it down to a science. Some species lay eggs, some bear live young. They all eat small insects, spraying a sticky good onto their prey to immobilize it. They are as God created them. They have no power to harm us in any way, and they look cool. Fascinating little creatures.

‘The Incredible Walking Worm’ (2016)

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Here’s a walking worm… walking.

Let’s re-visit this Mr. Nature outing, shall we? No one’s going to fight over this (famous last words).

https://leeduigon.com/2016/11/04/the-incredible-walking-worm/

The Peripatus, the “walking worm,” is one of those way cool little animals that most of us in the Northern Hemisphere are never going to encounter, even on a lucky day.

I wonder if an encounter with a walking worm would make it a lucky day.

The Incredible Walking Worm

Hi, Mr. Nature here! Allow me to introduce you to Peripatus, a neat little critter which I call “the walking worm.” It’s sort of like an earthworm, sort of like a caterpillar, but not really like either one. I would like to have some in an aquarium but Mrs. Nature won’t let me.

These walking worms live in warm climates around the world, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere. They eat small insects, which they capture by spraying stuff at them which hardens on contact, immobilizing the prey. These animals would be great for law enforcement if they were the size of German shepherds. You’d just have to train them not to eat the suspects.

I can’t help thinking God must have smiled when He created these. I’m sure I would’ve.