Did you know there are Giant Worms in the USA? Well we are lucky and blessed to have found some just this week, on March 27 – they had been presumed extinct! Now I wonder what fish you could catch with a giant worm?
If fishing isn’t your thing, you can still watch the Live Octopus Cam at the Smithsonian.
Octopus and worms both move in strange and organic ways – and this sculptor, Theo Jansen, has designed amazing kinetic beach beasts that move in strange and organic ways too. (If only they had weapons…)
Speaking of things that move in strange and organic ways, scientists have just discovered that cells in the body move around the body using some of the same complex patterns that amoebas and bacteria use when searching for food. (This may give some clues on how cancer moves around the body.)
But if you want to see something really weird, this legless amphibian, Boulengerula taitana, has an amazing way to feed its young: it feeds them its own skin! Not to mention, they’re blue. Which is pretty odd.
While I’m at it, here is “yet another creature that looks like a worm but isn’t” – this one is a reptile. It’s the tiniest snake in the world. I think it’s actually pretty cute. Leptotyphlops carlae is “as small as a snake can possibly get by the rules of biology”.
That sounds like a challenge…
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