TIL: There Is A Blind Brainless 20 Foot Long Worm Living In The Sea Floor

Sometimes you find the most random things on the internet. Ans sometimes you find nightmare fuel. I classify this a falling into the B category there. This is the bobbit worm, horrible name if you ask me. And it has no eyes or brain, and can grow 10-20 feet long. Plus it likes warm waters, like Florida’s, in the Atlantic AND the Gulf. I may never swim in the ocean again.

Here’s the post that freaked me out enough to need to know more.

Peek-a-boo! It's the bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois). This giant marine worm lurks beneath the ocean floor, growing as...
Posted by American Museum of Natural History on Monday, December 28, 2020

Not scary enough? How about a video of it in action?