What If Worms Grew Giant Tomorrow

they crawl from underground and terrify the masses they create chaos devour entire villages giant worms yeah we've all seen stuff like this in the movies but that's not quite how we go down in real life well hypothetical real life say you're a farmer in this world you own vast fertile fields with rows and rows of vegetables and some fruit trees your friends are coming over today and you're all going four wheel riding in the valley near your farm you're having a great time and don't even notice the beautiful blue sky disappear behind dark gray clouds the valley gets swallowed by a blanket of darkness off in the distance you hear rain falling you lift your head toward the sky and at that moment a single drop falls on your cheek you all look at each other in a moment of silence dread filling your eyes you book it out of their full speed toward the farm the rain is heavy now behind you hear a sound like a drilling rig grinding through the ground the earth starts to shake beneath off to the distance you see a sinkhole forming if you've stayed in that place for even a minute longer you would have fallen into the abyss but the sinkhole isn't the worst by far a gargantuan worm appears the size of a jet airplane it wiggles its way out of the ground and crawls on the wet grass you and your friends drive up high on a hill and look down at an incredible picture huge wet worms are crawling and wriggling all over the green valley some are the size of the jet others no bigger than a bus there are also small worms about the size of an anaconda small all of them surface and wriggle in different directions by now of course you're used to it this is the world you live in these slimy behemoths always come out when it rains ordinary earthworms don't have tons of razor-sharp teeth like we see in movies if a megaworm devours you at least it wouldn't chew you into a million pieces they simply push food into their stomach digest it and extract useful substances plus you're not even on the menu lucky you normal-sized worms feed on decaying organic matter rotting leaves tree roots the usual dishes the worm eats this and gets a charge of vitamins from it the best nutrients are hidden deep underground the further down you go the richer and more fertile the soil besides the worms never eat your harvest they don't feed on living plant tissue that's why they're perfect assistance for farmers worms constantly dig the ground and leave long tunnels in their wake these usually teeny tiny tunnels saturate the soil with oxygen and make it even richer it's also easier for plants to establish roots in this soft broken up soil yes worms are super handy but that's the normally small kind right now up on that hill you're peering down at goliath-sized worms and that's a problem the tunnels they leave behind while sifting through the dirt could severely weaken the soil tree roots would get dislodged an entire forest might come down too much air would sink into the ground there wouldn't be enough humidity in the soil for these creatures so they might take to drinking up whole lakes and ponds that or their jumbo tunnels would make bodies of water drain into the surrounding ground say just one big enough worm was crawling under a small town and disrupting the soil one of the first signs homeowners would see is cracks in the basement walls the foundation would be weakened and their entire home could eventually come crashing down if it didn't just suddenly fall into a sinkhole in one fell swoop to avoid this people cultivate the land around their cities towns and homesteads with a thick layer of salt this keeps the worms from crossing that line they might look terrifying but the super-sized slimys are peaceful and don't attack people so you decide to drive up to them to get a better look their bodies are covered in small well compared to their size hairs that cling to the ground and help them move you drive all over the valley and catch the little worms the snake size ones that is you collect them in a container for use in your harvest in the future but you must hurry because the rain is over and the ground is drying up which means the worms will crawl back to where they came from by the way scientists still don't know exactly why worms come out when it rains experts used to think the water floods their burrows they need to come up so they don't drown but worms breathe through their skin not lungs and they need moisture to survive an earthworm can stay alive underwater for several minutes now another theory says rain beating down on the ground causes it to vibrate worms are highly sensitive to any fluctuations in their environment when it rains they take these vibrations as other animals are coming up to gobble them it sounds paradoxical but to hide they come up out of their holes maybe they think it's a mole or some other underground enemy approaching the world has adapted well enough besides on rainy days and at night you wouldn't even know you share a world with colossal earthworms they're afraid of sunlight worms don't have eyes but their skin has receptors that are sensitive to light and touch every night the worms may come out but by morning there's no trace of them it's not a year-round problem either in fall summer and spring they're out and about but in winter they go deep underground where it's warmer and more humid these big worms are constantly digging the ground some tunnels are so deep and wide that people can explore the labyrinths for days on end they look like mining shafts and plenty of companies have already jumped on using that opportunity wormholes are used to find minerals precious metals and gold miners no longer need drills the worms do the work for free there are still risks though you have to be careful not to meet a worm in these tunnels you could end up accidentally going down its throat but if you have powerful flood lights you can scare them away now just be glad you don't live in a world with giant sea worms for example there's the spaghetti worm the earthworm's cousin of the sea it can divide its body into many long thin spaghetti-like tentacles a jumbo-sized one would seem like a giant squid or something not even from this planet it could wrap all those tentacles around your body and forget about cutting them off to save yourself new ones just grow in their place giant flat worms would be a nightmare on earth this bizarre and ancient sea dweller looks like a colorful blanket rippling through the water they're actually the first animal to develop a head and brain and they're considered the first hunter on this planet as soon as their lunch approaches they wrap themselves all around it and slurp it up what a way to go oh and the thought of giant peanut worms will keep you up all night it looks like an elephant's trunk and dozens of small tentacles protrude from its mouth to grab its prey in the real world this worm can be well over a foot long imagine if it were a thousand times bigger or the horror that is the feather duster worm from a distance it looks like a peacock's tail imagine swimming in the depths and seeing a beautiful fan of feathers the size of your house off in the distance but as you get closer you realize their tentacles and each tentacle is covered with fine hairs that can help grab prey but the worst monster is the spawning fire worm this sea creature is bright red like a flame it has jaws that grab its unfortunate lunch if it were huge it would be able to gobble up whales and sharks but the worst thing is that this worm is venomous the normal ones can cause rash on human skin i shudder to think what a giant one could do to you all these thoughts flash through your mind as you peer at the snake sized worms in your container and deep in the ocean something's growing yeah it might not just be earthworms that have become super-sized in this world

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Length: 8min 37sec (517 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 27 2020