but they live in the ocean: meet tomopteris helgolandica, a polychaete worm that lives above the abyssal plane: it is also unequivocally a Space Dragon.
check this shit out
look at this tiny majestic motherfucker
bonus: his wiggles
When I tell people my supervisor’s favourite animals are polychaetes people react with an eyebrow raise. But look at this glamorous cutie.
This is a photograph of Mickey Grosman holding a giant earthworm found in the Amazon. Earthworms can be gigantic, and in Africa they can even be heard underground moving in tunnels under your feet. . Repost from The Biodiversity Photoblog
I picked up a worm, and it wrote something in my hand with a tiny pencil. Unfortunately it was too small to read. An autograph? A spell? An angry note?
@reanimateobjects I’ve decided to line up with their writing and whatever they wrote appear to be…. phallic. I don’t how to break the news with you, but, I think that worm drew a penis on your hand…. Congratulation?
Ooh! Thank you for this valuable contribution to the field of worm linguistics and/or art. It is still unclear to me if it’s meant as a rude message to me, if it’s just putting its tag there, or something else. Further research is needed!
I think the idea of it being a penis is anthropomorphism. I mean, the worm doesn’t have a penis itself, nor proper eyes with which to see one. No, I’m afraid this is something far more interesting: a self-portrait. You have been touched by an aesthetic annelid, and now your life will never be the same.
Now I will forever try to communicate with all the worms I find, but I worry that I’ll never meet this one again.
My name is Werm I liv in ground And thru the darck I skwirm around
The peepl tell me All the tym I’m farr too yuck With too much slym
But I think Werm Is gud to be. I find a styck
I draw a me
scariest thing to ever happen to me: this mysterious worm who visited my school
there were a bunch of adults standing around it jotting down shit on a notepad and every time i tried to get close they shooed me away, i feel like i got too close, i fear for my life
watch them consider the worm
