Bizarre 10-Foot-Long Sea Creature Captures Prey With Poisonous Mouth Hooks. Published Nov 13, 2017 at 3:34 PM EST Updated Nov 14, 2017 at 10:42 AM EST. ... In addition to the Bobbit worm, ...

Just like the nearly 10-foot undetected Bobbit worm found in a Japanese aquaculture pen, Bobbit worms have been found hiding out in aquariums, too. In 2009, an aquarium in the U.K. discovered a 4 ...

The bobbit worm, also known by its scientific name Eunice aphroditois, is a segmented worm species in the phylum Annelida. This animal family includes roughly 22,000 species of earthworms, leeches ...

Growing to 10 feet long, the worm digs a burrow in the seafloor, leaving only its bear trap of a mouth sticking out. When a fish approaches, the bobbit worm shoots out of its burrow with ...

Sand strikers — also known as bobbit worms — reach up to 10 feet long. They have razor-sharp jaws they use to catch unsuspecting fish and can split into bits to regenerate.

Not only that — the Bobbit worm was back to destroying Arndt’s aquarium; he’d spotted it eating one of his corals. At this point, Arndt was desperate. He was about three weeks into his war against the ...

A CREEPY worm that lurks in tropical water keeps out of its lair and chops up its prey with razor-sharp teeth. Bobbit worms, also known as sand strikers, are one of the lesser-known horrors of the … ...

Using five antennae, the bobbit worm senses passing prey, snapping down on them with supremely muscled mouth parts, called a pharynx. It does this with such speed and strength that it can split a ...

Like modern bobbit worms, ancient worms may have dug holes in the seafloor to lie in wait before attacking their prey (illustrated), a new study suggests. Y-Y. Pan et al. / Scientific Reports 2021 ...

And I can tell you without a hint of doubt that the bobbit worm is by far the most bizarre. Growing to 10 feet long , the worm digs a burrow in the seafloor, leaving only its bear trap of a mouth ...