Those among you with a reverence of worms the size of it of watermelons should avert your eye now . It ’s about to get unearthly in here .
That thing you see blow in a jounce , looking positively gigantic beside a cupful of coffee ? It ’s a specie of mammoth Antarctic scaleworm known as Eulagisca — or , as I ’ve been referring to it all morning , a nightmare grenade . The most terrifying thing about this brute is n’t even its size of it ; it ’s its oral cavity . write Deep Sea News ’ Miriam Goldstein :
Yes , that entire purple complex body part [ show at flop above ] is a elephantine circle OF jaw … Many polychaete worms have an eversible pharynx — most of the meter those jaws are tuck away , but when the insect wants to feed , the entire front of their throat pluck out of their mouth .
take more , and break out more pictures , over atDeep Sea News .
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