Video of weird worm
Flickr user pokerchampdaniel posted a video of a very strange worm he found under a log in New South Wales, Australia. He couldn't identify it but commenters say it's a Nemertea. It's very odd."Strangest Invertebrate Ever" (Thanks, Justin Ried!)
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It looks more like a land leech than a worm.
what? I don't get it. They're implying there's something weird about this? This isn't "ethnic humour" I hope?
Foreskin Worm!
Tak, a minor family get togther?
..and, is that Xeni I can hear off camera?
That's a chilli
so many cousins, so little feeding time.
I'll see your worm and raise you a:
Giant Blue luminescent Earthworm
"This otherworldly Australian earthworm, Terriswalkeris terraereginae, not only looks likes delicious candy, but the mucin it releases is luminescent, and it grows up to 2 meters long."
Your bid.
Guys, there is a freaky undead thumb poking at that poor worm and nobody is saying anything about it. In the words of the immortal Wonder Pets, "This is serious! We have to help him! Let's save the worm!"
That's nothing, my dog's got one of those. Granted, he doesn't actually use it to get around. (But he gets around with it nonetheless.)
Suddenly the bug-cave scene from (Jackson's) King Kong is not so far fetched.
Whew, I almost thought this was going to be another review by Joel.
does he like to play the drums?
"i'm not a real doctor but i am a real worm i am an actual worm"
A worm, potentially unknown to SCIENCE?
How maddening!
That's a brave man to put that worm on his hand. I'd be afraid that the thing would burrow under my skin, go directly up to my brain, and make me think that Sarah Palin would make a fine chief executive.
Speaking of weird worms, planaria, aka the "hammerhead worm" is pretty freaky. Seen 'em on rare occasion in the Silicon Valley (not native to CA.) Look it up, yo.
Reminds me of a funny comment in Stephen Jay Gould's "Wonderful Life," about the Cambrian fauna of the Burgess Shale. He noted that, before advanced methods of classification (DNA and cladistics), "worms" were the junk classification of the animal world. If an animal had bilateral symmetry and was longer than it was wide, and you didn't really know what the hell else to call it, it was a worm.
Oh
My
God
My butt just curled up into a tiny little ball. I have to cry now.
Dahhhh!!! Worrrrrmss!!!
You know what's really weird about that worm? The dead finger pointing at it!