A perplexed visitor to California's Drakes Bay snapped a photo of the creatures.
The critters call U-shaped burrows in muddy sand their home, which can descend between 10 to 45 centimeters deep. To eat, the worms pulsate to collect particulates on a net made of mucus, which they then swallow. In front of its mouth sits a proboscis, or a sucking organ, and a ring of around 10 to 11 setae, or bristle-like structures, near its anus at the end of its body.
According to Parr, there is fossil evidence of their burrows dating back 300 million years, and the worms can live for up to a quarter of a century. Innkeeper worms inhabit low intertidal to subtidal areas from Southern Oregon to Tijuana Slough, Mexico. But they are mostly spotted between Bodega Bay and Monterey, aroundHe suggested seeing a fat inkeeper worm is"an almost uniquely California experience," and half-joked the animal could be"State Worm."
These phalluses are prey for flounder fish, sharks, rays, gulls, and otters. They are also considered a delicacy in South Korea, where they're called gaebul, or dog genitals.He said:"I had no idea what they might be...it went on for two miles. "I walked for another half hour and they were scattered everywhere. There were seagulls lined up the beach the whole way having eaten so much they could barely stand. A quarter of them looked like they were still alive." Ford said those had a"dead sea-creature smell," said Ford.
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