Video of marine flatworm taking over crab goes viral, internet says eek!

A video of a marine flatworm engulfing a crab at low tide has become viral on the internet. The video shows the former blanketing the crab while the latter tries to escape but fails.

Watch the video here:


The video was posted by thedarksideofnature on Instagram in a post that was captioned, “Venom
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Kurt Cabahug

. Marine flatworm engulfs a crab at low tide.”

The video has been shot by Kurt Cabahug as revealed by the post’s caption. The background music plays ‘

Venom

,’ the theme song for the Marvel movie that goes by the same name, as the marine flatworm looks, moves and sticks to the crab’s body just like the symbiote does to objects and people in the movie.

The short clip has garnered 44.3 million views, over 2 million likes and over 20,900 comments.

Some netizens were amazed by the clip while others were shocked to see it. Some others even drew a comparison of the clip with a fight from the show Pokémon, while others called the marine flatworm an ‘alien.’

Here are some of the comments:

“�� What in in the world . Looks like Pure liquid that’s moving around �� did not expect it to win”

“Looks like a pokemon battle between grimer and kingler”

“Plot twist, we are the aliens the whole time on a different planet”

“We live on such a strange alien planet”

“That’s terrifying. Thanks for staying small and in the water.”