In the American city of Port Isabel, Texas, a woman caught an unusual creature in the sea, which turned out to be a dangerous poisonous worm. This is reported by USA Today. Alyssa Ramirez was fishing on the pier with her mother. When she once again reeled the line onto the reel, she saw that a strange creature had seized the bait. “I laughed because it was definitely not a fish,” Ramirez says.
She filmed the creature and sent the video to the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife. The specialist studied the sent footage and came to the conclusion that the girl fished out a worm, which belongs to the species Hermodice carunculata. Such worms are found in the tropical West Atlantic and are covered with hollow bristles with venom. If you touch the bristles, they break off and inject a powerful neurotoxin under the skin. The victim experiences burning pain that does not go away for several hours.
“Fortunately, I didn't have to touch this creature because it released my bait by itself,” Ramirez says. - From the way it moved, from its red color, it was clear that it was better not to touch it. I put it on the rail of the pier, took a video and a photo. It twisted for several minutes, and then fell into the water by itself. Earlier it was reported that a giant skeleton of an unidentified creature was thrown onto the coast of the Scottish city of Aberdeen. The remains were found a few hours after the Ciara storm.