Cool article, just one correction. The word is "eunuch" not "eunic." I'm also pretty sure the scientific name isn't derived from it, since Eunice is person's name from a different Greek root.
Mc-Eevee
· 4 months ago
Aww! I absolutely adore the bobbit worm! It's so cute yet disturbing. :B
peterdickinson
· 4 months ago
Beautiful photographs. Smaller creatures than I am used to but nonetheless fascinating. Thank you
SaucyLobster
· 4 months ago
Wow. Bobbit worms are big, I mean 10 feet... That's huge. And they're so badass cutting things in two with thier faces and defacing aquarium property. Wow.
MartyParty
· 4 months ago
This is great. I knew that worms could be diverse, but I never expected so many levels of adaptation and symbiosis. The discovery of chemosynthesis used by tube-worms has opened up the possibilities of life elsewhere in the universe, even in our own solar system (Europa, mostly). Chemosynthesis has spelled the death of all sun-worshipers.
zayda
· 4 months ago
Some glorious choices, but what stands out for me is the Bobbit Worm. I've never seen those before, but... so pretty! So huge! So vicious! I think I have a new favourite carnivorous worm. <3
scythemantis
· 4 months ago
what was your previous favorite? :D
zayda
· 4 months ago
Well, my favourite worm were the Spirobranchus giganteus (Christmas tree worms) with deep sea tube worms second, but they don't eat flesh. So as far as carnivorous worms go, I seem to distantly recall a type of fish (or other marine animal?) parasite worm that pretty much ate its host from the gut out, but I can't for the life of me remember where I read it. Possibly a type of tape worm or close relative?
These ones take the cake, though.
scythemantis
· 4 months ago
Hagfish do that to dead and dying fish, and in older books it was thought that they attacked live ones too, maybe it was hagfish? :)
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It's so cute yet disturbing. :B
These ones take the cake, though.