This is a crater hellion. This is a bobbit worm. The bobbit worm can grow up to 10 feet long. That’s huge. It hides in the sand, waiting for prey to pass over. Then it shoots out and snatches them out of the water, sometimes biting them in half. It can also inject them with …
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Reason #9,082: Pernicious Fungus
The parasitic fungus known as cordyceps is grade-A, nightmare fuel. It infects a host body and replaces its tissue. In ants, for instance, the virus takes over the brain. The ant starts acting erratic, and the other ants will actually remove the infected member from the rest of the colony. As the cordyceps hijacks the …