Tubifex worms in Cameron Villiage

[archerships]

Not for the squeamish. I’ve been to Cameron Village, and it’s a little freaky to think that such creatures were living in the sewers below.

Original: craschworks - comments

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[timtad.livejournal.com]

What the hell is that? is it a known life form?

[crasch.livejournal.com]

According to a Timothy S. Wood, a freshwater bryozoan expert, and a reader of geekologie, they're tubifex worms.

"Thanks for the video - I had not see it before. No, these are not bryozoans! They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting. Interesting video."

[fishsupreme]

And here I was assuming they were the many tentacles of the Crawling Chaos.

[cappy.livejournal.com]

What are they contracting/reacting to? Light/Sound/the water movement/vibration? It's obviously a defensive/alert/something changed reaction, but it's difficult to tell to what stimulus.

[pasquin.livejournal.com]

looks like a nipple to me.