A group of scientists recently returned form a month-long voyage off of Eastern Australia, the largest and deepest habitat on the planet that remains the most unexplored environment on Earth, said Dr. Tim O’Hara, chief scientist of the expedition.
O’Hara claims that understanding this particular habitat will “assist in its conservation and management and help to protect it from the impacts of climate change, pollution and other human activity,” Buzzfeed reports.
But enough with the unimportant stuff.
Among the various foreign creatures the scientists stumbled upon was a species of worm known as the “Peanut Worm,” which looks like something I’d find in your mother’s top drawer, bro.
Peculiar group of sea creatures found in deep Australian abyss https://t.co/5WtQziRTCO pic.twitter.com/l66QwStKpA
— IBTimes UK (@IBTimesUK) June 17, 2017
The creature got its name “Peanut Worm” because when it feels threatened, it “can contract its long head inwards and resemble a peanut.”
In any event, it looks like a dick. And Twitter ran with it.
https://twitter.com/festivating/status/876133969334501377
how deep u tryna go? pic.twitter.com/uNLHjRVQVK
— unhinged (@BREAKINGTHOTS) June 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/AsiaRChapman/status/876258883173367808
https://twitter.com/drmattdambrosio/status/876218277889925120
— MQR (@mallsta) June 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/marcxsteele/status/876079696265568256
What the mainstream media won't show u pic.twitter.com/0kbewnPfWO
— robert f hennesy (@MkultraMarl) June 17, 2017
SpongeDong!
— Gabby Hayes (@RealGabbyHayes) June 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/BrookeMedusa/status/876177046564720644
[h/t Buzzfeed]