The email from Trip Lamb, biology professor at Eastern Carolina University, said, “As a velvet ant sting survivor, you may appreciate the attached.” The attachment was a scientific paper titled “The ...

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Big or small, most creatures end up on something else's dinner menu. But the velvet ant combines a ton of defenses into one ...