I made biologically plausible sandworm

Chapters:
0:00 Impossibility of desert worm
0:36 Etymology of Vvyrm
0:55 1. Sea cucumbers
1:55 2. Crinoids
2:10 3. Bobbit worms and Polychaetes
2:40 4. Beetle's pectinate antennae
2:51 5. Nemerteans proboscis
3:56 6. and 7. Moray Eel and Snake's Jaw
4:22 8. Ottoia
5:19 9. and 10. Snake's fangs and whale's baleen
6:06 11. Trematode's sporocysts
6:34 12. Rotifers
7:01 13. Jellyfish's nematocysts
7:16 14. Parasitoid Wasps
7:44 15. Toxoplasma gondii
8:43 16. Agressive mimicry: Welwitschia and date tree
This is the behind the scene of • The Sandworm Biology E...
The video will contain timelapse of the painting process in the background and the sciency stuff on how I build the desert vvyrm or the apep dashrat. With my scientific background, I was able to develop this creature with many biology of real world animals, to give this vvyrm a believability. This video will explain how sandworms or desert worms, at least in Pangeum, are able to adapt to the arid wasteland. There will be anatomy and speculative biology based on those IRL animals. I hope you like it. There will be part two once the charybdis and the second part of the codex curiositas videos uploaded. I hope you enjoy this video and subscribe. Thank you.
About Pangeum:
Pangeum is a fantasy worldbuilding project adapted from mythologies and speculative evolution of mythical creatures, such as dragons, charybdis, medusa, and also my original creation. Told with storytelling style of first person point of view and my commentary on the lore and inspiration of how and why I expand certain story or creature.
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[@purplehaze2358]

To be fair, "worm" is just a wastebasket term for any animal that isn't trying to hide the fact it's a tube with fancy bits added on.

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

Yup, it was ✨paraphyletic✨ group

[@nexusoflife]

Indeed. That's pretty much all humans, all vertebrates and most invertebrates.

[@hobosorcerer]

On that train of thought, do they necessarily "require moisture to survive"? I mean yes, everything needs to drink water, but many animals exist just fine in the desert. Not all worms require some outer moisture, right?

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

@@hobosorcerer it's because they breathe through diffusion which requires moisture for the oxygen and the skin to have contact

[@TheDevinMT]

"Fancy bits" really optional

[@Irobert1115HD]

because we obviously know that worms require moisture to survive. dessert rain frogs: am i a joke to you?

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

This is new to me, after I've done some research, maybe i can add the behavior of the frog, how it collects water, into my sand worm. Thank you for the comment.

[@tysondennis1016]

It’s mostly worm, so we will call it that.

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

(spoilers for part 2) actually the inner anatomy of it and life cycle and the ancestor would resemble sponges and cnidarians. The sea cucumber part is for the body covering, so that it won't dry out, very far away from worm's need for humid environment. The consequence of this is that it can't breathe like normal worm by diffusion. That's why i can't call it worm

[@tysondennis1016]

@@EtherealEchoesofPangeum Okay

[@rogaldorn4759]

@@EtherealEchoesofPangeum +respect for attention to detail

[@freyala024]

KZbin randomly recommended this to me and I'm glad I clicked on it, this is super creative! Definitely interested to see your take on dragons.

[@user-wi8kh7us4s]

Literally scourge of the dessert, i love it

[@TimeTriumphs]

Your sandworm looks immensely terrifying yet plausible. I like how you incorporated physiological elements of predators. Lots of crazy adapations that really show how the wyrm survives well.

[@rayhanmustakim7073]

Such a creative and well-though out monster creation. Kudos to you

[@phattadontungtrongsit4137]

This is very nice and interesting. I’m excited on which creature you’re going to take on next.

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

it'll be dragons classification, then the charybdis (ocean vvyrm), then back to the desert vvyrm again, perhaps a short motion comic on the desert vvyrm

[@SaimonBhattarai2]

Hella underrated!

[@Marcin9200]

Congrats, you have created a truly wonderful monstrosity.

[@briandigiovanni6159]

Biologically Plausible? More like Biblicly Accurate.

[@JelloBeanzer]

Holy crap, although I haven't really put so much research and attention to detail, I've actually built my own sand worm design that has a lot of the external features/adaptations you described here 🤯 It's definitely a much better approach to the sand worm than what I did

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

It's nice knowing someone on the same boat

[@jackruby6696]

How big are they and what do they eat? You deserve more views man this is incredibly well thought out.

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

that's a good question for another time 😏. I'll answer it in comic book format

[@catpoke9557]

I can only imagine something that is presumably huge like this would eat microbes

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

@@catpoke9557 their ancestors, relatives. and their larvar stage did, since the larvae lived in the body of a host, they eat tiny nutrients and cells of the host.

[@Monderoth]

I thought you were going to make it 13 species living in a colony like lichens! ^_^;;

[@robertjackson1813]

I was confused by the title of the video.I thought you meant it was like I Like a conglomeration Of fifteen separate creatures making is making up a colony organism

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

Sorry to confuse you 🤣

[@coprophagichobo2377]

“The sea cucumber, adapted to live online” SEA CUCUMBER GAMING

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

Please stop, I've already replied and gagged on the previous comment 🫠

[@ni9h7mar390]

So much work put in! very nice

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

It does! Thank you for the appreciation

[@-danin._omera_.hasan-648]

As a person who is scared of worms... this was very interesting and honestly epic and very informative keep up the epic work frfr.

[@great-wall-of-nowhere9377]

we're getting an insight into the mind of a mad mage right here, genius

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

Mad indeed

[@Lichcrafter]

Awesome work, you really put a lot of thought into this!

[@eton_1428]

1:08 "the sea cucumber adapted to live online" Damn that's me

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

Dang it, I missed to edit out that part. By the way, sea cucumbers are the closest relatives to vertebrates, so yeah, we're online sea cucumbers.

[@BeKindToBirds]

Really like your channel

[@patrickismumbojumbo8645]

You sir, have got yourself a new subscriber! At first I thought it was meant to replace the worm in dune. But now I’m fascinated by this world you’re making, and how it’ll fit in. I’ll have to stay tuned because I’ll say, I’m excited!! -from now subscriber 428

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

Thank you for your appreciation 😭

[@ryanhiggins8869]

Pretty cool. Subscribed

[@great-wall-of-nowhere9377]

someone stop this mad mage before he makes this irl

[@JohnSmith-rs5mq]

Cool Video!!

[@sybrandwoudstra9236]

This is so cool!

[@Brydav_Massbear]

Despite what you think, this is indeed a worm.

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

More like worm like creature. Because the ancestors and relatives would be similar to sponges and cnidarian rather than worm. My taxonomy is different from our real world classification

[@jewalky]

The floating comments about butchered pronunciation are cute because it's easier to say where in the video is the pronunciation not butchered :p Nevertheless was interesting to watch

[@eggdogreal]

at 2:53, the image in the middle is the original image of daszombes channel icon daszombes is a youtuber who covers mostly rain world, along with other games like lethal company just wanted to point that out as a rain world enjoyer still great video! (nice art work too)

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

I think he edited the hands on real polychaeta worm's microscopic imaging. Not his original image

[@eggdogreal]

@@EtherealEchoesofPangeum yeah thats what i meant really sorry for not making it clear :P

[@DinoBoiRex]

ooooh yt recommended showing something special😮

[@Redbeardblondie]

Subbed!

[@nobodyimportant4778]

The problem with a biologically plausible giant worm that lives under sand is the need for a big BIG energy source to power that huge body with all the complex parts needed to blow air and liquefy sand in order to swim through it. Honestly yours is pretty clearly built to constantly eat something almost as big as itself with those jaws.

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

Yeah you're correct, I haven't had the time to address the liquefaction part yet. Also, the desert is teeming with triassic-like animals therefore they'll constantly got food. Some human ethnics even farm them for their medicinal and recreational properties, so they're quite thriving in this environment

[@conanhighwoods4304]

Can you elaborate on the parasitic part. How would it feel to get infected?

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

They became basically zombies. Aggressive and painless also having great strength. I think i might elaborate the morbiacs more on future videos

[@lloyd011721]

very cool

[@Tallacus]

It's cooler then the actual thing

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

You mean hotter 😏

[@ray4237]

yes

[@itsafish4600]

cool

[@CrakShak]

I have dislike extension on and, for some reason people actually disliked this video, how sick

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

Yeah. It's quite saddening 😢

[@lelslie7407]

spore

[@cassaxiom8019]

dude this is as plausible as a gorgon or a griffin 😂

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

Agree 🤣. At least biologically speaking is possible in its realm

[@Naturalbornmissgeburt]

This is really cool . Especially the drawing you made of the worm.

[@zyzz8840]

Subscriber 301 says تاكل كركري

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

What does that mean 😅

[@zyzz8840]

@@EtherealEchoesofPangeum Do you like to eat shrimp?

[@MrGreen-fi5sg]

Evo not real.

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

This is fictional project too by the way

[@stickthesecond5085]

you actually made a biologically impossible sandworm why does it have Bobbit worm jaws ? it has no use for them there is literally nothing it can eat with that except other sandworms? also you mention requiring moisture but then use a SEA CUCUMBER as a base. why not use a snake for lizard as a base instead ? then go from there in fact the grabbed from tremors is actually a reptile which solves the issue of water retention also ever heard of sand fish lizards ? all of your additions just made a more awkward animal that can't even do the one thing a sandworm is supposed to do which is comb the sand for food and shit it out the other end. id recommend renaming this video "my personal redesign of sandworm from dune"

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

Thanks for the feedback. The title is a bit click baity if I'm being honest. It's not dune sandworm. It's my own version of desert worm. This video is the continuation, a breakdown, of my previous desert vvyrm video, to give you a little context. I used sea cucumber because they're invertebrates same as worms, and have cuticles on its skin, cuticles prevent the water to evaporate. Then for the ambush method, they need to submerged their body inside the sand, again, to prevent water from evaporating. And who said the desert were only filled with sandworms, there'll be diverse animals that adapted to live on the desert environment akin to triassic animals, that can be grabbed by the sandworm. That's my justification for my design.

[@EtherealEchoesofPangeum]

The sandfish lizard is new to me, I'll utilize it for other creature, thank you for informing this to me

[@GAHIB14DomTrapFurryLoliYaoiMil]

Wow what a creative concept! I'm glad this was recommended to me