Violent ice worms

Ice worms of Green Hell

first disocvered by Roy Masters in 4929.

He discovered the worms atop the tallest mountain of the White Head Mountains.

The Ice worms of Green Hell are up to 5 inches long and like almost all life form of that world, agressive and able to bite and secrete a lethal poison.

These annelid worms spend their entire lives in glacial ice. They include Mesenchytraeus Terribus, M. Roymasterus and, M.Verdis

These  ice worms retreat underneath the ice before dawn. Enzymes in ice worms have very low optimal temperatures, and can be denatured at even a few degrees above 0 °C (32 °F). When ice worms are exposed to temperatures as high as 5 °C (41 °F), their membrane structures disassociate and fall apart (i.e., "melt") causing the worm itself to "liquify." Ice worms are several centimeters long, and can be black, blue, or white in color.

They come to the surface of the glaciers in the evening and morning.

It is not known how ice worms tunnel through the ice. Some scientists believe they travel through microscopic fissures in ice sheets,

while others believe they secrete some chemical which can melt ice by lowering its freezing point, like an antifreeze.

They feed on snow algae.