#SubterraneanBoringWorm #AnalidFossorGigantica #2018bestnine #2018besteight #MerryChristmas #Christmas #MerryChristmas2018 #Christmas2018 #HappyHolidays #HappyHolidays2018 #MerryXmas #MerryXmas2018 #HappyKwanzaa #HappyKwanzaa2018 #HappyNewYear2018 #HappyNewYear2019 Subterranean Boring Worm (Analid Fossor Gigantica) This giant worm lives in the heated tunnels far below the surface of solid core liquid based planets. They live their entire life cycle below the surface of the world, without ever breaking the surface. They bore through the solid rock with their massively powerful, multiple jaws, creating a labyrinth of tunnels. If they were to breach the crust, all of their tunnels would flood with the water from the seas miles above them. In order to prevent this, they have four sensory nodes at the junction of each of their jaws that pick up vibrations from their own tunnelling, similar to one of our terrestrial whales. The strange white colouring is a defect of living ones entire life out of any kind of light source. Since there is no need for colouring, the evolutionary process seems to have simply chosen the default setting. As safe guards against collapse, the female worms fill sections of tunnel with dense egg sacs, which when subjected to water expand and fill the breach, allowing the worms to repair the damage with minimal loss. The eggs themselves appear to be seen as nothing of particular importance as they display no behaviour or external signs of life. However, once hatched the baby worms are highly prized and revered. The females are incredibly protective of their young, and while normally very sedate and passive, they will fight to the death to protect their brood. Within the hive, there is a great sense of family, they sleep together, work and eat together and also seem to converse (via vibrational messages). I wonder what they tell their babies to make them go to sleep. https://www.instagram.com/p/BsHk8adlMke/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13v2qlid5yhqq