Nature - you continue to both amaze and horrify us.
A video that has gone viral in recent days has the Internet up in arms. The short footage appears to show some worm-like creature shooting out a creamy web across a man's hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxtKxlR5yqM
For an explanation, we turned to one of our all-time favourite sites -
I Fucking Love Science.
According to the scientists, it's 100 per cent real.
While the exact species identification is "difficult", they believe the tiny terror to be a type of ribbon worm.
The white matter that appears to squirt out from the worm is its "proboscis", a tubular sucking organ that some worms use to feed. So, our squirmy, wormy friend is just checking out his surroundings and finding out if he can eat the hand.
No biggie.
