Bobbit Worm - Animal of the Week
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2021
- This (not worm) week we're looking at the Bobbit Worm, a very strange polychaete that ambushes its prey by burying itself in sediment.
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Sorry just a quick correction. Barry the Bobbit worm was found at Newquay Blue Reef Aquarium not Newquay Zoo, sorry for the slight error.
no worries you beautiful hunk
How was he found and how did they know he was there? 🤔
Hi Ben and Doug I just learned these guys actually have an ancient if sparse presence in the fossil record mostly in the form of trace fossils but there are Devonian age body fossils
www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-79311-0 (20 Mya trace fossils)
www.nature.com/articles/srep43061 (body fossils preserved in situ within their burrows ~400 Mya )
Given that paleontology is your guys specialty I'm surprised you didn't cover this is it because these are so recently described and you missed it when researching this video?
I mean obviously they would have been somewhat different even if they are morphologically near identical in burrow shape and body fossils so they technically wouldn't be the same species as this creature of the week but it still would convey information about their larger clade's evolutionary history.
It is kind of amazing to find out these guys have been doing this for 400 million years meaning they lived through 4 of the 5 great mass extinctions. Chronologically it means they likely overlapped in time with Radiodonts
Bobbit worm is No.0
This worm actually has a few subspecies, too.
the Twistit worm
the Pullit worm
And the Passit worm.
Genius
Lol good one
LOL. Good one.
I just bought a couple bop it's from a thrift store for my kids. Went over like a lead balloon
LMAO 😆
Aquarium keepers: sets trap
Barry the legend: eats trap continues to hide
I saw one of these off the northern california coast once and it both terrified and mesmorized me. It's so rainbow irridecent it was like some mythical creature. I even asked a park ranger later that day about it and he had no idea what I was talking about. I guess they aren't usually found up there. But this is definitely what I saw.
Their irridescent carapace is indeed beautiful when you actually see it. But I still killed the one in my aquarium. That bastard
@@ddr8993 How?
@@tessat338 Took out the huge rock where the bastard was hiding in. Chiseled the rock until it squirmed out. Threw it in boiling water. Then fed it back to my fishies for revenge
@@ddr8993 LMAO that’s so funny 😂
@@ddr8993 you are right, he was a bastard.
I do wonder if the length is an adaptation to stop predators or even larger prey from pulling them out of their burrows. Or the Bobbit Worm is just one giant cosmic joke by evolution to ensure if it ever produced a sentient species that said species would eventually experience nightmares.
It might be vestigial. They could've been mobile at an earlier evolutionary stage, slowly becoming an ambush predator over time.
What i thought is it helps them get more leverage underground. Just like its difficult to uproot a big tree its hard to pull out or resist a worm that's 3m long barring itself inside its burrow as it pulls you in.
@@KrowleyPineapples777 kinda what he said
@@blizzard2508-k7n k
@@joshuagross3151 Based on trace fossils with similar size and shape it they seem to have converged on this form some time ago 20 Mya trace fossils are virtually identical to their modern counterparts.
www.sciencenews.org/article/giant-bobbit-worms-burrow-fossils-seafloor-ambush-prey
Much more direct evidence for this clade's ancient presence is in well preserved Devonian Lagerstatten ~400 Mya with a 3D body cast with fossilized jaw elements. The clade they are part of Eunicida is quite evolutionarily old having peaked in diversity in the early Paleozoic as a whole where they had very high biodiversity and occupied ecological niches with diversity having declined over time. So it suggests putting the evidence together at the very least they have been ecologically and morphologically quite conservative for about as long as fish have been present to ambush.
www.nature.com/articles/srep43061
Based on their conserved burrow shape where most of the burrow is horizontal making it an L shape overall I would say this supports the hypothesis @Neverheart raised
Love that this came out immediately after I discovered worm week.
Thank for making me aware of worm week
@@bexmw Worm week on this channel is nuts, you should check out the worm week videos from last year
Imagine steping on that fucking thing
Btw it looks cool
WORM WEEK 2 BABY
Bobbit Worm doesn't care. Bobbit Worm goes where it damn well pleases.
That's how a Bobbit Worm do.
Haahah
Nice
bobbit worm dont give a sh*t
This was the comment I was looking for 👍
Ahh, the black terror in the back of my mind when I'm working in my reef aquarium.
What's it like working in one of those?
To me, bobbit worms have a similar look to terrestrial centipedes but with the behavior of antlion larvae.
The reverse whack-a-mole. Seems legit.
great conceptualisation! (y)
"Only six inches of the worm ever comes out of their burrow"
Same, bro.
Wait did you ment your worm can grow up to 3 meters???
🤦😂
lol
@@sodaz585 There's only one way to find out...
This comment is priceless 😂
Yep this is why I was afraid of toilets as a kid
Mine was the candiru fish
I feared the funky sewer rat
*snip snip*
Where I totally chose to watch this video. Thanks for that~ 😂
Mine was the pulley monster
Aquarium keepers: *Set traps to catch Barry*
Barry: I AM THE TRAP !
This explains the whole ordeal between Lorena and John Wayne Bobbitt. Holy shit, he brought up the case right as I was typing this. Amazing.
And Darwin thought the parasitic wasp disproved the idea of a kind God...
What did he say about worms?
@@JohnyG29 "Awwww hell naw!"
@dražen g It doesn't just catch it... it reflexively pulls them into a hole with no regard for what it is, injecting them with toxins, and slicing them to pieces, a hole that is a serious mystery...
I say the Barreleye Fish is proof that G*wd’s love is conditional
He looks like the average Resident Evil boss type of worm, i like it.
I've seen on
Animalogic (wish they had some sources for this) that apparently those segments can split and sometimes more than 1 segment is viable to become a fully fledged bobbit worm. Maybe by growing this long if they ever get caught by predators not all segments get eaten and it can regrow and survive from whatever segments are left.
“Bobbit worm” is way too cute a name for this ancient horror.
Arachnids, snakes and centipedes are not scary. Worms however, worms are nightmare fuel.
Pin isn't scary!
Fr
go kiss a centipede then
@@SalreixVonOtsuu Pin isn't a centipede.
@@heihogreenzx4704 i don't know that that is
i was talking to OP
Ah, memories of Worm Week. Such a good time.
They have to get as big as possible to increase their chances of being chosen when papa Cthulhu wakes up.
They may look angry. But they love to give you kisses.
One of the most horrifying and just wrong animals ever
Nothing compared to wasps IMO
@@AlexMoreno-zj7po Nah wasps are easy to understand, this just looks alien
Close. But the most horrifying and just wrongest animals ever would have to be either the camel spiders or the giant sea scorpions
@@wolfynadark7453 yeah, I'd fight a wasp but not Bobbit worm.
@@julianshepherd2038 I'm the opposite I think
"That worm ain't right, I tell ya"
Yep
Yep
@@piersongarner7679 uh huh
@@cantweallplaynice3912 uh huh
@@piersongarner7679 When-dyagon it'd like you born into this world man and you got - it's like this: dust in the wind man, or like a dang ol' candle in the wind man. You gon - it don matter man it's not the old oldies all th' time man. You know what I think man? It'd like the the dang ol - I think therefore you are man.
YES BOBBIT WORM CONTENT!
POLYCHAETES ARE SO COOL!
The Bobbitt worm is like the wasps of the sea, horrifying creatures you should avoid at all cost lol
I'd rather step on a wasp than a bobbit.
OMG OMG OMG!!!! This is my favourite animal!!!! So excited that you’ve made a video on them!!!!
This thing is a nightmare, but look at the holo on it!
BARRY: the Worm, the Escape Artist, the Legend.
This is one of my favorite things to throw at my RPG party only scaled up to giant size.
I wonder if the Graboids from Tremor were inspired by these guys?
Maybe, while Buttblaster looks like blind reptiles
That is what the boppit worm reminded me of immediately
I just realized, this is basically a real world thresher maw.
1:52 ah yes i ambush seeweed as well XD
Jokes aside, another amazing episode guiz
Maybe their max length is limited by the availability of oxygen in their burrow, pretty sure each of their segments have their own respiratory system (gills) so it stands to reason that beyond a certain length it becomes harder to oxygenate the water deep down in such a narrow burrow while keeping most of their bodies concealed.
Also i'm not entirely sure but i think if they are cut in half they can regenerate to form 2 individuals so maybe once they reach a certain length either they cut themselves in half or are more prone to be ripped apart by external forces because of the limit to their exoskeleton.
Its hard to say but it should be noted that these worms have a fairly shallow L shaped burrow with most of their burrow arranged horizontally to the surface suggesting they don't really go that deep potentially because of the decreased availability of oxygen.
Fossil wise this adaptation of large size and L shaped Burrows is extremely old with the oldest fossil of these animals coming from Devonian age Lagerstätte like conditions meaning they survived at least 4 of the 5 great mass extinctions. (Their larger clade dates back to the early Cambrian with biodiversity peaking during the Ordovician and Silurian and decreasing over time thereafter.)
Kind of looks like the ghost leviathan from subnautica
> stows away in coral
>hides in fish tank
>eats fish
>eats traps
>refuses to elaborate
I still remember the Bobbit case. The husband went on to become an adult movie actor after the member was reimplanted. The woman I think went back to her native Nicaragua as a feminist heroine of sorts.
I've been attacked by their cousins whilst traveling the deserts of Ragnarok.
I bet Lorena Bobbit is so proud to have a worm named after her.
Imagine if these things fed off the plastic in our ocean and multiplied to occupy our beaches as a result?
We'd cure pollution overnight.
Surf boards are going to go extinct
We'd traumatize whole populations overnight.
You mean "their beaches"
Do you really want a population explosion of those things...?
Yo my man Barry is an absolute Chad, freeloading off of aquarium prey and just eating metallic hooks like they’re nothing at all, what a legend
Literally anything: *lightly brushes past a bobbit worm*
Bobbit worm *Peace was NEVER an option*
The five fold symmetry antennas are an unusual adaption
When I was a kid my parentd had a fish tank with lots of small saltwater fish, long story short my dad bought imported coral and it had a bobbitworm in it. 1 by 1 the fish disappeared until my dad finally spotted it.
"Adpatations"? Darwin would be more horrified by this misspelling than by the worm.
I had one is these worms in my aquarium. It killed a mated pair of cardnals I planned to breed. The only way to get rid of it was to remove the rock it was living in and let it bake in the sun for a while.
The Lorena Bobbitt incident happend in my neighborhood. I'm glad they named a worm after her.
We need more content like this! Keep up the good work! :)
"Barry, in my opinion, was an absolute legend."
Truer words were never spoken.
My favorite Terrifying Ocean Animal. Vicious and, inexplicably, poisonous.
I wish to have even just a fraction of the amount of chad energy Barry possessed
I would just keep Barry in his new home, no reason to hurt the worm or kill it, great video Doug and Ben keep up the great job learn something new.
I found some sand worms (another polychaete) the other day at low tide while muscling, then this loads.
Ah yes *another* case of some horrendeous monstrosity of cruel nature having an adorable cuddly name! Yay!
More like abomination death worm
The one from an Asian county
The name isn’t exactly “cuddly” is it
@@SnakesAnimations bobbit is quite calm sounding
Don’t see what’s cute and cuddly about mutilating someone.
@@baneofbanes
It ain't much different than circumcision, and many people seem okay with that (I certainly am not).
Awesome! Another job well done mate
Ah yes the Bobbit Worm, my sworn enemy in ruler challenge
Future news: "The Bobbit Worm has gone extinct."
Almost everyone: "Great!"
Not funny this is an ancient lineage of highly conservative animals that have been around since the Devonian at the latest virtually unchanged
www.nature.com/articles/srep43061
this guys are 100% metal
am i the only one who thinks that has same body shape as the ghost leviathan from subnautica?
Have seen a few of these on the coast of Vancouver Island in Victoria. One of them was easily 4ft long. We watched a seagull pick it up, it got sliced in half and the piece that fell back to the inter-tidal zone and we watched a white creamy substance ooze from its body before another seagull picked up the remaining 2ft and gulped it right down! Unreal!
The reason they seem to attack animals significantly bigger than it is purely due to how the bobbit worm’s nerves work, as well as how it generally functions. They do not have brains, and as such rely entirely on the world around them to decide on how to react. If something brushes around the little feelers or mandibles, no matter the size, it will pop up. Kinda cool how they manage to work despite literally having no proper brain.
The Bobbit Worm and the Stone Fish are the two animals that I fear stepping on most in the sea 😅
Salt water crocs
@@julianshepherd2038
You'll never step on a saltwater croc.
Those come sprinting towards you with open jaws 😅😵💀
0:00 from that angle it looks allmost exactly the same as a centipede, each segment with a pair of legs and an armor plate on it's back, i wonder why they would did they called it a worm
Hold up- getting stung by this thing causes _permanent_ numbness? That’s way scarier than the way it looks.
I'm getting some Ghost Leviathan PTSD from watching this.
These things are the stuff of nightmares.
All those Adpatations in one worm
These things are so badass...
I want one
One of my favorites
You got a 👍🏻 for the worm stuff….. Newquay Zoo- on a calm night we could hear lions roaring from 6 miles down the valley.
They do unerve me on a visceral and primal level. I swiped past this many times before it plucked up the courage to watch. Watched it now about 5 times and immersion therapy is failing me . They are a fantastic nightmare. 😯
Bobbit worm: Everyone seems scared of me. Am I just too intimidating? Does my persona drive people away?
Bobbit worm: *turns rainbow* Problem solved!
Great content, thanks.
I’m confused, I thought y’all did a vid on this animal already?
0:34 i see you holding your laugh there 🤣
Aww, its just as cute as a giant centipede.
The Bobbit Worm is the most terrifying animal on the planet. Forget dinosaurs, lions or hippos, the worm pulls the prey under with huge graspers that are impossible to escape and eats it alive. Shame on you Ben for not showing a clip of one feeding, it really is a nightmare come true.
I'd be stoked to get one of those in my aquarium.
Great job on making decent content often. Keep up the good work.
I single bobbit worm darts out and cuts your windpipe. As you're suffocating and bleeding out, hundreds of them will suddenly emerge and then take pieces out of you until there's only bone left.
Awww it's the cuddle noodle, how adorable
It was blue reef aquarium in Newquay not Newquay zoo. Coz I work there and the other night the aquarist show me barry corpse in tub with some liquid to halt/slow its decomposition. It was kinda cool
People saying this is the most horrifying animal they have seen do not know animals. Sea life alone has horrors greater than this.
which ones? I am aware of quite a few "horrors" on our planet, and the Bobbit Worm is definitely among the top5. I presume we are talking about multicelled organisms though, otherwise it propably wouldnt be.
im pretty sure it was the sea life centre in newquay. the zoo there doesnt have an aquarium and i read a report on it while working at an aquarium in a zoo in the north of england. we had one in a display tank and so had to do a bit of research to figure out what it was since we had only caught glimpses of it.
Getting an extra worm in for worm week I see.
Worm Week has risen again!
Love this
Tbh I'd love to have a bobbit worm aquarium
seems to me there has not been enough investegation towards this kind of animal if they do not even know for sure if it is venomous, yet it apparently was able to be kept in captivity even if it was by accident.
Thank you for the video! Let’s talk about the peanut worm next!
The most hilariously named worm ever!
Finally, love this creature
Nomination for animal of the week: stomatopods. They punch as fast as a .22 bullet and so fast that the water around their "fists" boils. Super weird looking, too!
man, Barry is a Legend
if you find something like this is eating your aquarium fish, you ditch the fish and keep it as a pet instead
WORM WEEK IS BACK LET'S GOOOOOO
oh my goodness, I love the (possible) backstory to its name.
The bobbitt worm will give me nightmares!! LOL.
Bobbit worm...uaggh..creepy,deadly n bobbit perfect name!ty Ms.Bobbit!ik alot of salt water tankers have to be super careful cuz some ppl have no idea or clue they're fish n other sea critters are "disappearing "until it gets too late n the worms become visible n huge..oh nvm u are takin words right out of my mouth!!
I love them.