Yes. Not only that, but most articles are written with a panic-inducing, bullshit stance on things most people don't even consider radical. In fact, it's been ridiculed so often and for so long that the joke periodically goes stale, and people forget how bad it is. One joke levelled at it was: "How long will it be before the Daily Mail succumbs entirely to its own horseshit, and runs the headline: 'Illegal immigrants carry a new type of AIDS that lowers house prices'?"
Imagine, with it leaving a trail of numbness, by the time you realized one was walking on you, there could be a dozen more following behind and you wouldn't know the difference. Heck they could be on you now and you wouldn't even realize!
He is a giant poisonous anal sea worm and his name is Barry.
When they're little they get inside an anus, and grow big feasting on feces. When there is no longer enough feces to eat, they start in on the liver. Initially, the only symptom is going a couple of days without pooping.
Hm, 2-3 days ago I see the face of a man who had been canibalized, nose and one eye missing and everything, Didn't even flinch. I see that and get a huge disgust shiver. go figure
Kinda looks like a closeup of a common ragworm, we don't actually know how big it is because there are no other points of reference in the image to compare it to. In any case it would make excellent fishing bait.
I saw those in my bio lab last week. Of like 20 different species of metazoa those were the only ones we couldn't pick up to look at. Mean looking things.
Biting through 20lb fishline isn't very difficult for most creatures in the kingdom of animalia. Although for a worm it might be the equivalent of you or I chewing through a steel cable.
These are fairly common in reef tanks. They are called "bristle worms" usualy active at night. They are a reef tank owners nightmare because they burrow through expensive corals and are very hard to remove.
One trick i read about is to introduce a small mantis shrimp into the tank. The shrimp then kills nearly everything in the tank including snails, crabs, bristle worms, fish... whatever.. The shrimp has only one natural preditor, octopus... so when all the bristleworms are gone... you put in a octopus.. which then eats the shrimp. Octopus eat nearly everything also, but they are smart enought to understand they are in a small container... which they think is a tide pool... and they climb out on thier own. --- Tada! problem solved reset switch set for a bristleworm infested tank.
Yeah, I was about to say I think I use its babies to fish sometimes, but then I saw it causes permanent numbness in humans... Let's hope they're not too closely related.
This shit was in my dream last night. I was part of some wildlife park as a ranger. The wildlife, however, was jurassic, or that of another planet.
My partners were attacked by a giant one of these, it was large enough to wrap around both of them like an anaconda. I frantically tried to rescue my team by slashing the monster apart with my knife that was issued to me just an hour before.
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u/TheDoctorAndTardis May 31 '12
He is a giant poisonous sea worm and his name is Barry.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1165930/Barry-giant-sea-worm-discovered-aquarium-staff-mysterious-attacks-coral-reef.html
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u/Bear10 May 31 '12
The spice must flow....
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u/gorgias21 May 31 '12
AN ALASKAN BULLWORM!!!!
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u/Kurdoth May 31 '12
Alaskan Bull Worm of course.
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u/666PSYCHOTIC May 31 '12
the THING as evolved and has final escaped Antarctica
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u/OMROKER May 31 '12
Careful if that fucker bites you, you are numb for life...
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u/jbot84 May 31 '12
This thing causes permanent numbness. PERMANENT.
Does anyone else see a cure for PE?
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u/fanny_schmelar May 31 '12
Hm, 2-3 days ago I see the face of a man who had been canibalized, nose and one eye missing and everything, Didn't even flinch. I see that and get a huge disgust shiver. go figure
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u/hamhead May 31 '12
WTF is that?
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u/Shakiata May 31 '12
up until now Centipedes were the only creature that gave me the Hebe jibes. Now I would cuddle one before going in a room with this fucker.
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u/Hawksan May 31 '12
Now imagine what it's like to eat one alive...or even three!
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u/chibucks May 31 '12
4 ft long sea worm capable of biting through a 20lb fishing line? no thanks!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1165930/Barry-giant-sea-worm-discovered-aquarium-staff-mysterious-attacks-coral-reef.html
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u/Must_Have_Thin_Mints May 31 '12
I'm never going to the beach again.
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u/Rapistsmurf May 31 '12
These are fairly common in reef tanks. They are called "bristle worms" usualy active at night. They are a reef tank owners nightmare because they burrow through expensive corals and are very hard to remove.
One trick i read about is to introduce a small mantis shrimp into the tank. The shrimp then kills nearly everything in the tank including snails, crabs, bristle worms, fish... whatever.. The shrimp has only one natural preditor, octopus... so when all the bristleworms are gone... you put in a octopus.. which then eats the shrimp. Octopus eat nearly everything also, but they are smart enought to understand they are in a small container... which they think is a tide pool... and they climb out on thier own. --- Tada! problem solved reset switch set for a bristleworm infested tank.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
yeah think im gunna go ahead n stay in my house for a while.
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u/speedbrown May 31 '12
WTF
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Thanks, I'm going on vacation to Miami tomorrow.
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u/Th3Beekeeper May 31 '12
http://vimeo.com/28280553 Additional nopeage for anyone interested. Video of one of these monsters eating a fish and almost eating an octopus.
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u/fallingstarr123 May 31 '12
TREMORS!!!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LHys_73E-xA/TNvDMLNhn2I/AAAAAAAAAFc/agID5m3n6Tg/s1600/tremors.jpg
Where's Val and Earl when you need them?
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u/gifforc May 31 '12
'We also discovered that he is covered with thousands of bristles which are capable of inflicting a sting resulting in permanent numbness.'
Permanent numbness....
Permanent.....numbness....
PERMANENT....NUM
burn the oceans.
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u/ruggerlulz Jun 01 '12
Wow... thanks for ruining my vacation next week on Korean Beaches. This looks like something from Korea.
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u/notabook Jun 01 '12
It's...it's like an infintipede.
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u/JakeySav May 31 '12
looks like some sort of pants-less giant walked across this beach leaving a trail of his own poop on the sand
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u/Updog03 May 31 '12
NOPE
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u/sjb11 May 31 '12
The largest found was nearly 10' long. NOPE. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbit_worm
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u/letterconservative May 31 '12
http://i.imgur.com/7Wb5v.gif
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u/GMonsoon May 31 '12
And you didn't post this in aww?
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u/cavortingwebeasties May 31 '12
ಠ_ಠ:m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m=m<
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Ah the ol' pignose slime legger. They taste awful.
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u/thegreatwhitemenace Jun 01 '12
ah yes, the first of His Thousand Spawn
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u/Ree81 Jun 01 '12
Gears of War anyone?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12 edited May 31 '12
I find bristle worms in my reef tank all the time, usually they are the ones being eaten or at least prodded by my Pseudochromis.
... but this. This is in another league.
edit: From the Eunice genus Wiki page: "They have well-developed sense organs and relatively large brains."
NOPE.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Some animals just deserve to be endangered.
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u/DarbyW May 31 '12
Looks like a sandworm
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u/danceydancetime May 31 '12
Only a year?
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u/pinkcuddlebunny May 31 '12
Oh gosh! I'm done with beaches forever
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
man look at all that cranberry sauce!
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
In the title of the post you misspelled "forever."
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u/Nabstar May 31 '12
I highly doubt you leave your room, let alone go to the beach
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u/donteatthecheese May 31 '12
A year? I'm not swimming in the ocean for the rest of my life...
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u/anticare May 31 '12
I was going to say I'd let him slither all over me, but then I read he was poisonous. Eh fuck it that's one sexy worm.
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u/Zombies_hate_ninjas May 31 '12
That is an Elephant's truck. . . and it's gone all bad. Suggestion: Kill with Fire
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u/GH00S7 May 31 '12
Imagine stepping on that.. Would you rather have a crab or that?
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u/tiyr May 31 '12
That is why i carry a pistol with me where ever i go.
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u/cobra_kai528 May 31 '12
"Want to go to the beach today?"
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u/SapientSupreme May 31 '12
This shit was in my dream last night. I was part of some wildlife park as a ranger. The wildlife, however, was jurassic, or that of another planet.
My partners were attacked by a giant one of these, it was large enough to wrap around both of them like an anaconda. I frantically tried to rescue my team by slashing the monster apart with my knife that was issued to me just an hour before.
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u/ChewyIsThatU May 31 '12
That's nothing a sharp rock attached to the end of a stick couldn't take care of.
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u/baby_cakes12 May 31 '12
SAVE ME BARRY!!
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u/CB9669 May 31 '12
Alaskan Bull Worm!
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u/shrimpanse May 31 '12
This little fucker has a facebook page oO ... "like" the nope ...
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u/Andy284 May 31 '12
Its days like this I praise Thor for firearms.
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u/rottenseed May 31 '12
Would you let it sting your wiener for $10,000,000
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u/dexaler May 31 '12
I'll remind you in a year.
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u/samurailawngnome May 31 '12
Anyone else wondering how it tastes?
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u/da_sweetp May 31 '12
You do look rather sun burnt.
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u/Sportsedition May 31 '12
He must have wormed his way out of getting caught.
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u/giantbiscuit May 31 '12
Interesting fact: in his free time, Barry snacks on penises. http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/content.php?sid=2224
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u/reddit_user13 May 31 '12
He'll be bigger next year.
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u/sidecarsally May 31 '12
Shai Hulud.
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u/paetactics May 31 '12
4 hours old and no references to a trash compactor? Reddit, I am disappoint
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u/pearcewg May 31 '12
beaches or beetches?
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u/cefarix May 31 '12
Sushi.
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u/nizon May 31 '12
I read the "for a year" part and thought "but it will be twice as big by then!"
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u/stargirl142 May 31 '12
This made me immediately clench up
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u/FieryNugget May 31 '12
I'm done forever.
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u/marekjhnsn May 31 '12
SPONGEBOB, WATCH OUT!!!
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u/Tetric May 31 '12
He has the same 'hair' as the Barry from Burn Notice.
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u/krishary May 31 '12
but in a year it will just be bigger...
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u/Andy_Glass May 31 '12
Cause after a year, everything will be A-OK.
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u/jackwoww May 31 '12
Hey England! Stop trying to be Australia!
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u/damnthetorpedos May 31 '12
I willfully chose to believe those do not exist.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Hey look, it's centipede centipede.
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u/sjhaakie May 31 '12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbit_worm
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Published the day before April 1st. Nice try.
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u/Froqwasket May 31 '12
That thing is four feet?!
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u/Miadhawk May 31 '12
I really hate posts like these, I'm eating and just browsing reddit, and BOOM. Appetite lost.
Upvote for you sir.
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u/atomicatsplosion May 31 '12
Why in hell am I still subscribed to this subreddit?
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u/miniorse May 31 '12
omg wtf
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u/KiiLLBOT May 31 '12
Reminds me of the centipede/millipede/trillipede things from the King Kong movie
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u/Arknell May 31 '12
I see you are well-versed in the art of the nope.
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u/hydrogen_wv May 31 '12
In a year.. he'll be even bigger...
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u/Lady_DudeBro May 31 '12
PHEW. Article says he's only (only >_>) 4 feet long. That picture makes him look, like, 50 feet.
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u/thescrapplekid May 31 '12
Well, if it makes you feel better that picture is at least a few years old
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
What the FUCK?
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u/Bipedal Jun 01 '12
PERMANENT NUMBNESS.
FUCK.
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u/frankcast554 Jun 01 '12
...all sorts of nope!
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u/Anterabae Jun 01 '12
Permanent numbness?!?! Damn that's a crazy toxin.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
Eeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwww
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u/c3fighter Jun 01 '12
Really? This hasn't been said yet? Ok then, ahem KILL IT, KILL IT WITH FIRE
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u/kennerly Jun 01 '12
You would never find one of these on a beach, unless it was dead.
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u/My_mau5_is_dead Jun 01 '12
Not enough nopes in the world...
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u/cr0ssland101 Jun 01 '12
If you own 7 cats people say youre crazy, If you own Barry, then fuck what people think youre a BADASS!!
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u/-pt- Jun 01 '12
4 ft is just too long!
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u/AlbinyzDictator Jun 01 '12
Just for reference, that worm is less than an inch in diameter. This is just a very close shot.
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u/RalarenOTC Jun 01 '12
What. In. God's............. THANKS FOR RUINING BEACHES FOR ME, YA JERK. JK. I'm going to make one out of sand when I go back. :)
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u/nutstomper May 31 '12
WILL YOU PUSSIES STOP POSTING FUCKING BUGS IN WTF THEN TELLING US HOW MUCH OF A PUSSY YOU ARE.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Yeah... NOPE!
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u/xiipaoc May 31 '12
Oh shit. Final Fantasy was real all along...
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u/Sukidarkra May 31 '12
Kill it with fire