Giant worm burrows
beneath the sand and into your nightmares
The sea-bound creepy crawly above definitely falls
in the latter category.
Taken by diver Jules Casey, the video shows a long
spoon worm burrowing itself into the ocean sediment.In her Instagram post,
Casey says this is a type of spoon worm called Ikeda taenioides. She filmed it
during a night dive near the Blairgowrie Pier in Australia.This type of spoon
worm, the largest in the world, is native to the northern Pacific Ocean.It can
grow to lengths of over 8 feet. While hard to measure exactly, the spoon worm
in the video appears even longer.Ikeda taenioides buries itself about 30 inches
into the sand, while keeping its proboscis or nose poking out of the sediment
for feeding.
See video here :
Spoon Worms are mainly deposit feeders, collecting detritus from the
sea floor. Fossils of these worms are seldom found and the earliest known
fossil specimen is from the Upper Carboniferous. However, U-shaped burrow
fossils that could be Echiuran have been found dating back to the Cambrian Era.
They don’t have any eyes or other sense organs, but instead
the proboscis is presumed to have a tactile sensory function. Echiurans are
exclusively marine and the majority of species live in the Atlantic Ocean.Luckily
you are unlikely to meet one in everyday life.A living cryptid.
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