Ulf Göransson and his team say the Lineus longissimus work can grow to be up to 164 long and its mucus often smells like sewage. Nemertides in the slime disrupt cell-to-cell communication, rendering the creepy household crawlers paralyzed or dead. Göransson theorizes that the bootlace worm releases the toxin to discourage predators. Their work was included in a recent issue of Scientific Reports.
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