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by Kim Woolcock When I started writing It’s Tough to be Tiny , I didn’t know what a velvet worm was. I stumbled across a reference to them w...

by Kim Woolcock Growing up, I was always the shortest person in my class. I was guaranteed to lose games of Keep Away. I could never reac...

by Kim Woolcock It’s spring, and all kinds of creatures are crawling out from under the leaf litter. Including millipedes. Their name mea...

by Kim Woolcock The new year makes me think of new beginnings. Why not new bio-inspired technologies?   As microplastics clog up our newsfee...

 by Kim Woolcock It’s autumn where I am, and the leaves are turning. They look like they’re setting themselves on fire before they fall, go...

Most of us know what a mime is -- that's a person who mimics a movement so it looks like they are climbing a rope or walking against a s...