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Green Spoon Worm

Check out this freaky Green Spoon Worm (Metabonellia haswelli, phylum Echiura), filmed in Port Phillip Bay, Australia, on 8 Feb 2018.

It may look harmless, but this marine  worm can paralyze small animals using the neural poison in its skin.

via: Youtube.com

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[drhoz]

A Most Illustrious Worm: Ikeda taenioides - I'd like to draw your attention today to a remarkable worm, Ikeda taenioides, whose immense size and bizarre morphology make it unlike anything you are likely to have seen before—a veritable living tape measure of a creature, stuck on its own lonely, idiosyncratic branch of the tree of life. Despite having been

[drhoz]

Although they do get one thing backwards - the pigment is named after the worm, not the other way around

[drhoz]

Proboscis of the Green Spoonworm, Bonellia viridis