What is This?

[nPeace]

I wasn't saying it's a worm particularly.
Worms are usually soft bodied. Unlike this.
It could be related to a snake. I don't know.
I don't think it's a legless lizard.
The body was like armor, and when I hit it, it popped, and there was a bit of blood.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I wasn't saying it's a worm particularly.
Worms are usually soft bodied. Unlike this.
It could be related to a snake. I don't know.
I don't think it's a legless lizard.
The body was like armor, and when I hit it, it popped, and there was a bit of blood.

It is difficult to tell from the resolution of the video, but I think you had a small snake. The species would depend on where it is you are located. There is actually a snake called a worm snake that has three subspecies in the central eastern United States. It did not look very big in the video, and depending on your location, there are a number of small snake species as well as juvenile snakes that it might be.

After looking at the video again, its movement does remind me of a glass lizard, but it doesn't look the part as near as I can tell.

Based on your description and the video, I feel pretty confident it wasn't a large earthworm.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

What is this?

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Notice how it seems to be probing and looking for a crevice or some way out in the first few seconds of video. I would say that is what it was doing and that makes me think vertebrate (snake/lizard) rather than worm. That and the way worms move is much different and they tend to have a tapered shape to their anterior end as they move.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Notice how it seems to be probing and looking for a crevice or some way out in the first few seconds of video. I would say that is what it was doing and that makes me think vertebrate (snake/lizard) rather than worm. That and the way worms move is much different and they tend to have a tapered shape to their anterior end as they move.

Perhaps a centipede? The legs might not show with such low resolution.

 

[Subduction Zone]

I read more. Blood, definitely a vertebrate then. Either a snake or lizard, I agree.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Perhaps a centipede? The legs might not show with such low resolution.

It is an interesting idea and would spark a good discussion of animal locomotion and what we can tell.

I see some of the classic motion of snakes exhibited in the video. I think the unusual motion is due to the slick tile and perhaps panic in the animal as well.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I read more. Blood, definitely a vertebrate then. Either a snake or lizard, I agree.

I would say very likely. At least more of that pesky evidence people use to draw conclusions.

 

[Subduction Zone]

It is an interesting idea and would spark a good discussion of animal locomotion and what we can tell.

I see some of the classic motion of snakes exhibited in the video. I think the unusual motion is due to the slick tile and perhaps panic in the animal as well.

Yeah, when I read "blood" I immediately switched to vertebrate myself.