'It's happening': Ice worms emerge in Pacific Northwest glaciers

Accuweather ^ | July 30, 2021 | Monica Danielle

[outofsalt]

Volcano

[Hiddigeigei]

"You know what it's like in the Yukon wild When it's sixty-nine below; When the ice-worms wriggle their purple heads through the crust of the pale blue snow" --- Robert W. Service

[bgill]

The only thing worse than, “I’m from the government and here to help” but “It’s happening.”

[Gay State Conservative]

Reminds me of an old joke my dearly departed Dad used to tell:

Sam: I'm going fishing
Bill: You got the worms?
Sam: Yah,but I'm going anyway

[xp38]

What happened to the murder hornets?

[bgill]

Where's Heather and Burt Gummer when you need them?

[Night Hides Not]

[dfwgator]

[Robert DeLong]

They are probably tickled pink too, on the inside. 🙂

[sphinx]

Write up a quick outline for a story and sell it to A24. They’ll make the movie.

[eclecticEel]

[GOPJ]

Glaciers have been slowly melting since the ice age...

https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/resources/the-formation-of-the-great-lakes/how-they-were-made/

from link:

Thousands of years ago, the melting mile-thick glaciers of the Wisconsin Ice Age left the North American continent a magnificent gift: five fantastic freshwater seas collectively known today as the Great Lakes — Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. From the westernmost tip of Lake Superior at Duluth, Minn., to the easternmost tip of Lake Ontario at Watertown, N.Y., lakes stretch a thousand miles across the heartland of both the U.S. and Canada, creating nearly 9,500 miles of ocean-like shores.

[GOPJ]

"You know what it's like in the Yukon wild When it's sixty-nine below; When the ice-worms wriggle their purple heads through the crust of the pale blue snow" --- Robert W. Service

Snow works as an insulation...

[PIF]

OMG...Ice Worms on the loose...coming your way!

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And extremely hungry. This very slow growing organism is shown in the image in its larval stage. The gigantic adults, rivaling a T. Rex in size, are renown for their rapid attacks from camouflage concealment taking their prey down with razor sharp claws and fangs. Using its extended feeding tube, it sucks out the prey’s blood and other bodily fluids while the prey is still alive, having injected a paralytic venom before slowing eating the prey in its entirety. Note: the Ice Worm only eats living prey, dead or dying prey is avoided. The prey’s fear pheromones help in its digestion process.

And you thought the disappearance of the Mega Fauna of the Ice Age was due to some some comet strike or predation by humans ...

We are doomed.

[cornfedcowboy]

“ So the tiny ice worm is the largest organism on earth?

Who writes this”
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This is exactly why they are so awesome!

[PIF]

it does seem odd that lower volcanoes still have their snowpack, and Rainier has lost one entire side.

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Oh oh - time to move at least several hundred miles away fast. When it goes, because it is so high, the magma has to reach enormous pressure to breach the top, forcing the entire mountain to blow - making St Helenes eruption look like a lady finger firecracker compared to a 5000 lb bomb.

[PIF]

that’s just its larval size ...

[rockrr]

Shades of Tremors...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for that insight about Rainier versus Baker. I didn’t know that.

Remember several years ago when they learned that one of the Antarctic ice sheets was melting due to volcanic activity under the ice?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Fascinating article about the snow snakes. I figured they had to be related to the jackalopes and snipes.

This caught my eye in the article you linked:

...women were not allowed to touch a man’s snow snake

I should say not! Unless invited, of course.