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June 4, 2009

Living "Sausages"

Watch the video, what would you name these creatures? Don't let your mind run wild!





Those weirdos are known as Spoon worms (they are one of the spoon worm species). Yes, they do look a lot like uncooked sausages, but they are alive. Spoon worms are unsegmented and soft-bodied that live in the sand or mud in the water and they are also marine burrowing creatures. Usually, these worms have a body length of 3 to 15 cm, however, they can grow to as long as 75 cm in some cases.

Spoon worms secrete a lot of sticky mucus which forms a net attaching to the inner wall of its burrow funnel that acts as a filter to trap small marine organisms. Once the net is loaded with food particles, the Spoon worm will then swallow the whole net together with the food particles. After that, it will create another mucus net.



The Spoon worms are a type of delicacy in some countries. For those who have never seen these "sausage-like" creatures before, eating one of them may be a huge challenge just like those challenges in Fear Factor. I have never tried before, and never will.

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