Eunice Aphroditois - horror and scary sea monster |Nature VN

One of the most feared predators in the ocean, even the name of the Bobbit worm is enough to make many people shiver.

To most accurately describe, Bobbit is a species of sea worm, with a set of jaws containing hundreds of sharp knives, like a meat grinder. Its size is also very respectable: on average 1m long, but some are up to 3m long. They have been present on Earth for nearly 400 million years. Bobbits live in the warm waters of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The fear of this worm lies in the way they hunt. They will hide their long bodies in the sea sand, revealing only a small part. And then when the fragrant bait passes, they will jump up at extremely high speed, twist their jagged teeth into every fiber of the ill-fated, and drag it down to the grave that has been dug. Scary is not only that. Even its name (Bobbit) will make many people shudder to know its origin. The person who coined this name was Dr. Gosliner at the California Academy of Sciences, during a trip to the Philippines in 1992. According to the explanation, he was working on a book on the species at the time, and he needed a name for the worm E. aphroditois.
Its name comes from a 1996 court case involving a woman named Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis with a knife while he was asleep in bed. The worm is considered a of the most fearsome giant sea worms. They can grow to reach 3m in length.
Most of the time, they stay in burrows on the seafloor, leaving only part of their body protruding from the surface to catch prey - mainly fish, and hide the rest of its long body into the ocean floor. covered with gravel, mud or coral.
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