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Published online 15 May 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000518-4
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The velvet underground
Velvet worms are among nature's stranger curiosities. Henry Gee explores the ancient rotting logs that these intriguing animals call home.
Some people like a pied-a-terre in the city: others favour a country cottage with roses round the door. But for Euperipatoides rowelli, a species of velvet worm from southeastern Australia, 'home' is a soggy, well-rotted log, lying on a southeast-facing slope, shaded by shrubs and preferably infested with delicious termites.
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