While we may all have successfully navigated puberty and left that part of our lives far, far behind, a small piece of our 12-year-old mind never left any of us, as so brilliantly demonstrated by the Internet's new favorite celebrity, the "peanut worm." You get three guesses why.
According to Mashable, an Australian research group from Museum Victoria and the CSIRO, Australia's scientific research agency, came across this particular "peanut worm" during their month-long investigation of the deep sea along Australia's eastern coast. They recorded their findings and this particular photo found its way onto Twitter via the International Business Times UK. The Internet's responses did not let us down.
According to the article, the "peanut worm," technically named the sipuncula, was nicknamed as such because apparently the group of scientists who gathered around one late night to name it claimed it bore a resemblance to shelled peanuts.
The peanut worm can reproduce both sexually and asexually, and when threatened, contract their long head inwards. And, yes, it looks exactly how you think it looks.
Our only consensus: There must be group of scientists with an epic sense of humor out there, somewhere, because there is no way this worm could have been named the peanut worm without one person snorting their coffee all over the lab.
