A group of English scientists are spending a month in the Gobi desert in search of the Mongolian Death Worm, a fabled creature said to lurk in the sands of the hostile region. The three to five feet long long creature is known to the locals as Allghoi khorkhoi, Mongolian for intestine worm because it is reported to look like the intestine of a cow. Mongolian nomads have made extraordinary claims about the animal, reporting that the death worm can spit a corrosive yellow saliva that acts like acid and that they have the ability to generate blasts of electricity powerful enough to kill a full grown camel.
I’m afraid this report is a little out of date, being from 2005 I’ll try to find some follow up info. I think I would have heard if they’d found.
I do have some recollection of an expedition finding a “Mongolian Hurts-Your-Real_Bad Worm” last year. Perhaps it’s the same animal just not as fearsome as legend would have it.
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