In the sparsely populated desert, there is a magical creature, shaped like a large sausage about 1.5 meters long, with no head and no legs, but the whole body is poisonous, just touch it, it will die, it lives in the most desolate area of the Gobi.
The creature is said to live underground and is dormant for most of the year, with only June and July being relatively active.
The most frightening thing is not its appearance, it is rumored that this creature can spray corrosive venom, but also can produce a powerful electric current to shock prey, and camels in the desert are often the target of its attacks.
This creature is known as the Mongolian Worm of Death, although it is famous, but after many efforts to find, so far has not found any evidence to confirm the worm of death, so the existence of the worm of death has become a problem to be examined for eternity.
No one has ever seen the Worm of Death with their own eyes, but there are still many people who believe in its existence, partly because of the legends that have survived to this day, and partly because there are creatures on Earth that are similar to the Worm of Death, that is, the Bobbitt Worm.
The dead worms of the ocean
Bobbitt worm is a marine organism that lives on the seabed and belongs to the phylum of link animals, a species of insect of the polychaetes. This bug has a variety of colors, dark brown, gold, red, green, etc., as if it has a beautiful rainbow color.
It can be found in warm oceans around the world and is known for its unusually large size and length.
In appearance, the Bobbitt worm is indeed very amazing, even longer than the Mongolian death worm.
The average length is 1 meter, and the Bobbitt worm found in the waters of the Iberian Peninsula, Australia and Japan can reach up to 3 meters in length, with a cylindrical body and a body width of up to 2.5 cm.
Since the 19th century, it has been considered by scientists to be the longest polychaete.
The largest Bobbitt worm specimen ever found is 299 cm long, weighs 433 g and has 673 segments.
In 2009, at the Japanese fishing port of Seto, it was hidden in one of 120 floating boats.
Scientists don't know when the Bobbitt worm entered these floating boat groups, whether it had settled here since its infancy or whether it had only come later.
But the only thing that is certain is that it has been living here for quite some time.
Ambushed at the bottom of the sea, one bite can cut the prey in half
At the Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay, England, something very strange happened: a reef display box was badly damaged, the coral was cut off, and the other residents inside died.
The aquarium staff sensed something was devouring the reef, but didn't know what it was.
In order to catch the initiator, the aquarium staff set a trap, but the result was not ideal, and instead of catching it, an injured fish was torn in half.
In desperation, he had no choice but to empty the corals, rocks and plants in the entire fish tank, look for the culprit, and finally found a 1-meter-long Bobbitt worm.
According to aquarium reports, this 1-meter Bobbitt worm may have been hiding in a piece of coral at a very young age, then entering this fish tank and secretly living in it for several years before it grew to such a large size.
Why hasn't it been discovered for so long?
Obviously, this has to do with its living habits.
In general, it lives in sand most of the time, and when food is needed, it will protrude a part of its body and use the 5 tentacles of its head to perceive its prey.
Smaller worms and fish are its food, and it also feeds on seaweed and other seaweeds, looking for food on the surface of its caves when prey is scarce.
Once prey is spotted, it catches them with a complex feeding device called the pharynx.
The pharynx can be turned inwards, like the fingers of a glove, with a strong, sharp jaw at the end, and the prey is likely to be cut in half, because the speed and strength of its attack is amazing.
Even if it is a human who is close, it will still attack and bite hard.
Once the prey is caught, the creature drags the prey back to the cave to enjoy.
As a result, very few people can actually see this creature.