BUT THERE'S A GOOD SCIENCE REASON FOR IT
This Roiling Mass Of Caterpillars Is Nightmare Fuel
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You're out for a morning walk, you look down and the ground, and you see — what the hell?!
As it turns out there's a good science reason for all this — the caterpillar monster can move faster than any single caterpillar by itself, thanks to some nifty physics:
Anyone who's been on one of those endless moving walkways at airports knows that if you walk on a moving belt, you'll get to the end faster. And so these caterpillars have essentially built a caterpillar-powered conveyor belt. Unlike a typical conveyor belt, this one never runs out, because the caterpillars keep disassembling and re-assembling it.
[WIRED]
This old Smarter Every Day video goes into more detail:
