And somewhere at the bottom of the ocean, there is a predator that is considered the most terrifying and annoying. That is Bobbit – a deadly sea worm that is often “aired” in scientific films by Discovery, BBC and National Geographic.

To describe it most realistically, Bobbit is a sea worm, with a set of jaws containing hundreds of sharp knives, like a meat grinder. Its size is also very respectable: on average 1 meter long, but some are up to 3 meters long.

According to David Attenborough – BBC expert, they have been present on Earth for nearly 400 million years. Bobbits reside in the warm waters of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

The fear of this worm lies in the way it hunts. They will hide their long bodies under the sand, only revealing a small part. And then when fragrant bait passes by, they will jump up at extremely high speed, twist their jagged teeth into every fiber of the unfortunate person’s flesh, and drag it down to the pre-dug grave.

“The most terrible trapper in the natural world” – Attenborough once commented on the Bobbit worm.

However, the fear is not just that. Even its name (Bobbit) will make many people shudder when they know its origin.

Scientifically, this worm is called Eunice aphroditois, but no one calls it by that name (except in scientific research). It “died” the name Bobbit a long time ago.

The person who came up with this name was Dr. Gosliner at the California Academy of Sciences, during a trip to the Philippines in 1992. According to the explanation, at that time he was working on a book about species here. , and he needed a name for the E. aphroditois worm.

At the same time, there was a shocking case broadcast across all news channels. Lorena Bobbitt – an Ecuadorian woman used a knife… to cut off her husband John Wayne Bobbitt’s penis while he was sleeping.

That’s not all! Bobbit then drove the car, throwing her “little brother” that her husband held like an egg and caught like a flower out into the middle of the field. Luckily for this guy, the boy was later found and put back in its “old place”, but it was never the same again.

Responding to the police, Lorena said it was an act of self-defense, because her husband repeatedly raped her. Subsequent investigations concluded that Lorena was innocent, because her husband’s long-term abuse had caused her severe psychological harm before committing the crime.

But in short, Gosliner took the duo’s last name to name his worm. Perhaps partly because the worm’s hunting style is similar to the way Lorena handles her husband’s “little guy”: suddenly, quietly and very neatly.

Having read this far, are you scared yet?