This Terrifying Worm Snatches Fish from the Ocean Floor

deep on the ocean floor the sand striker or bobbitt warm weights with multiple mouth parts displayed bone hard grappling hooks poised to pierce and immobilize prey but the real nightmare remains unseen coil pent-up aggression as long as an arm and some specimens grow to twice the length of a man as night falls many sand strikers emerge to feast it's a bad neighborhood to hang out in but fish are fast and the sand strikers are feeding blind they don't have eyes or a brain they react only if one of their antenna is triggered or if a shadow lingers patience gotcha and the sand strikers are just getting started it's time for the main course [Music] underground there's plenty of storage space anything on the seabed is fair game even spikes in venom are no match gone in seconds massacre over the strikers withdraw to digest until the next time [Music]

Channel: Smithsonian Channel

Views: 12,168,300

Rating: 4.8621988 out of 5

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Id: K_7ByiYbCYM

Length: 3min 18sec (198 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 13 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/Double_farts]

Here's a very entertaining story of a guy discovering one in his aquarium and his fight to remove it.

http://www.michiganreefers.com/forums/advanced-topics/84173-bobbit-worm-chronicles.html#/topics/84173?_k=r7hfnw

[u/beneath_the_bottom]

Reminds me of those terrifying worm things from King Kong

[u/TheGreat-Zarquon]

What is it with American nature docs and terrible sound effects?

[u/Millers_Tale]

I feel like 90% of wild creatures die horribly. They are either murdered by predators or they starve to death.

[u/CptScarlet92]

They remind me more of the creatures from the film "Deep Rising" awesome 90s film worth watching at least the once.

[u/Brindoth]

These things can infest aquariums and eat all of your fish if you're not careful. Bobbit worms can hide in live rocks and coral and then completely destroy your aquarium. They are also really hard to kill, because they can survive even after being decapitated and can grow to be over 8ft long. They also have an incredibly powerful bite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=refnOdW49rw

[u/oyog]

Awesome footage but god that voice over is obnoxious.

[u/JimmyRust]

What the fuck is the purpose of these? The only reason I can think of is that they're so shit and useless, predators have no reason to eat them, so they've not been removed from the evolution circle. They're just forgotten creatures.

[u/[deleted]]

The part that gets me is that they DON'T EVEN HAVE A BRAIN. WTF.