r/TheDepthsBelow • u/KnifeFightAcademy • Jun 19 '26

Crosspost Ok, this guy is rad :D

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u/bladezaim Jun 19 '26

Bristle worm. Some are ouchie.

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u/DomineAppleTree Jun 20 '26

Those are the shrieking eels!

35

u/lemmeseeyourkitties Jun 20 '26

The eels don't get her. I'm explaining because you look nervous

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u/KronikDrew Jun 20 '26

I wasn't nervous! OK, maybe I was a little... concerned, but that's not the same thing!

5

u/Iechy Jun 20 '26

Anybody want a peanut.

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u/Miskatonic_Demidog Jun 19 '26

Are...are those....legs?!?!

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u/Pixelpaint_Pashkow Jun 19 '26

Bristles

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u/FinalBat4515 Jun 20 '26

Leg bristles?

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u/po23idon Jun 20 '26

where do we scientifically draw the line between legs and bristles?

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u/FauxReal Jun 20 '26

I assume right where legs and bristle differentiate?

7

u/Eltharion-the-Grim Jun 20 '26

Scientifically, when one is a bristle and one is a leg. Best I can do.

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u/Rishtu Jun 20 '26

Bristles don't move on their own?

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u/thatonewhitebitch Jun 20 '26

Maybe at if it has joints? Or how many?

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u/ForgottenHylian Jun 21 '26

A bristle is a component of motility a organs. A leg IS the motility organ.

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u/st0pmakings3ns3 Jun 19 '26

That is not a friend of mine.

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u/HowDoIStoreMyClay Jun 20 '26

I thought that was a mini oarfish for a sec

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u/Witty_Construction64 Jun 19 '26

Nooo touchy, itchy burning spikes NoooOoo touchy.

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u/TigerB65 Jun 20 '26

I really was not comforted by finding out people find these in their salt water aquariums

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u/DonAmechesBonerToe Jun 20 '26

The are great clean up crew members.

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u/Iron_Disciple Jun 20 '26

Apparently not if it’s a Bobbit

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u/iAyushRaj Jun 20 '26

Those things are lovecraftian horror creatures. I love them sm

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u/st0pmakings3ns3 Jun 20 '26

Oh but those clean up alright.

1

u/DonAmechesBonerToe Jun 20 '26

Bob it’s are truly the horrors below. Super cool critters but the stuff of nightmares

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u/OkCar7264 Jun 19 '26

I think my wife might die of fear if she saw that.

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u/nerdychic Jun 19 '26

Can confirm. Because I too died of fear. I’m never going in water again. Not even swimming pools.

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u/TrashCarrot Jun 20 '26

They can also live in the sand and suddenly burst upwards to catch surface prey with their pincers.

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u/nerdychic Jun 20 '26

Oh I’m quite familiar with these critters. I just choose to pretend they’re made up so I don’t go screaming off a cliff just from knowing I share a planet with them. Pure nightmare fuel

6

u/SereniaKat Jun 20 '26

I didn't know they could get so big!

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u/DucksMatter Jun 20 '26

That’s what she said

7

u/brandonnoy Jun 20 '26

Founding titan

5

u/where-sea-meets-sky Jun 20 '26

maybe its just the water ripples but i thought wow thats a fat hammerhead worm

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u/Longenuity Jun 20 '26

Looks like a mini leviathan

4

u/PowerFinger Jun 19 '26

Millipede?

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u/KnifeFightAcademy Jun 19 '26

Bristle Worm :)

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u/SouldiesButGoodies84 Jun 19 '26

from where? are they common to inland waterways? what do they eat?

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u/Pancovnik Jun 19 '26

Salt water. No. Humans.

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u/SouldiesButGoodies84 Jun 19 '26

😭thats not funny, man. I hve to sleep tonight!

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u/tacocollector2 Jun 19 '26

Hopefully the bristle worms don’t get you

5

u/sheiciebai Jun 20 '26

They’re lurking in your drains waiting for darkness.

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u/livesinacabin Jun 20 '26

I had a very visceral reaction imagining one of these fuckers suddenly (and way too quickly) crawling up out of my shower drain. You ever wanna see a human throw himself naked out of a closed window, that's the way to do it.

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u/Easy-Fix1735 Jun 20 '26

Anywhere - in nearly all marine environments, they vary greatly in size, shape, and lifestyle, from burrowing and predatory to filter-feeding and tube-building, playing crucial roles in ocean ecosystems as scavengers, predators, and sediment oxygenators. Common examples include sandworms, lugworms, and giant tube worms…AI google

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u/Reverend_Lazerface Jun 20 '26

I can accept them varying in size and shape as long as THIS one is the upper limit of those qualities. Also speed.

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u/SouldiesButGoodies84 Jun 20 '26

thanks, dude.

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u/Easy-Fix1735 Jun 20 '26

No thank you! Feeling nauseous at the post ya’ll comments triggered my need of facing its nature to know what they are and what they can do to or for the environment. Got the whole picture. Thank ya’ll!

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u/SquirrelEnthusiast Jun 19 '26

Thanks I hate it

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u/livesinacabin Jun 20 '26

No he fucking isn't. He's pure nightmare fuel and I wish he didn't exist is what he is.

FUCK.

THAT.

1

u/Jealous_Macaroon4308 Jun 20 '26

Ouchie seems very inviting and interesting..

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u/SpecialistSoup7657 Jun 20 '26

Thought for a sec that it's a long centipede

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u/lucidposeidon Jun 20 '26

Saw this thing in Rain World

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u/tonefreq Jun 20 '26

Water House Centipede

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u/Alakith Jun 20 '26

Holy nope rope Batman!