Undersea Creatures of Nightmare
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Anjani Ganase presents some marine creatures that have terrifying defence mechanisms. Fortunately, most of them are small and only make themselves visible when threatened. Look closely and maybe you’ll see which ones inspired monsters of fiction and film. Slice and dice jaws What buries itself in the sand, lying completely still in order to grab and pull an unsuspecting prey away into the underworld of coral reefs? The Bobbit worm invokes depictions of the sand monsters of sci-fi movies, such as Dune and Tremors. In real life, this worm is only a few inches wide but can grow up to 10 feet in length. Its razor-sharp jaws can chop a small fish into pieces. It was named after Lorena Bobbit who severed her husband’s private part. If that wasn’t enough, the worm also injects venom into its prey. The name Bobbit worm is actually used to describe least 50 species of predatory worms with similar behaviour, since the specimen collected could not be identified to speci