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Velvet worm named after Studio Ghibli’s Totoro

By Adeline Darrow
In Education
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Velvet worms are adorable caterpillar-y looking things, silently plodding along on stumpy legs in tropical forests around the world. A recently discovered species was so cute, it got a name straight out of Studio Ghibli: <a target=”_blank”>Eoperipatus totoros. The species name is an homage to the CatBus in the film .:My Neighbour Totoro “the species is named after the main...

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