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Old Jul 2nd, 2009, 07:21 AM   #2 (permalink)  
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Coldturkey


*runs to bathroom to throw up*

After a bit of googling, i found the following excerpt from Dr Timothy Wood:

"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."

I find the video disgusting.... and intriguing at the same time.... i think i should put a warning in the thread title








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