California blackworms tangle themselves up in balls together to preserve moisture, but when they sense danger they can fling themselves out of the chaotic blob in just milliseconds
Worms that create intricate, tangled blobs with their bodies can disentangle in milliseconds when threatened. This speedy unscrambling is possible because each worm wriggles in a special corkscrew motion.
at the Georgia Institute of Technology shined ultraviolet light on one of these twisted-up worm balls in the lab he was shocked to see the worms disentangle in just a few tens of milliseconds.were extricating themselves from the blob a hundred times more quickly than they formed it. They used ultrasound to look inside blobs of about 20 worms and determine the details of their structure, such as how many times each worm coiled around another.
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