This Strange Worm's Mouth Is Also Its Anus

Hey there, hipster! Some worm is trying to steal your mustache.

Danish Ho caught this creepy crawly recently on camera and posted it to his Facebook page. He told National Geographic that he was hiking in the mountains in Malaysia on a beautiful day, spotting “monkeys, leeches, scorpions, snakes,” and then this peculiar animal, which he didn’t recognize. ("Watch: Bizarre Deep-Sea 'Worm' As Long As an Arm Revealed.")

Ho thought it might be some kind of snake and recorded it. Reader Terri Shofner then alerted us to Ho's video of the odd-looking creature, which experts say is likely an unknown species of the genus Bipalium, known by the common names hammerhead worm and broadhead planarian.

The video is unusual: Typically, these

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