The Mystery of the Gobi Desert Monster

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Did you know there’s a legend about a creepy creature lurking in the Gobi Desert? They call it the Mongolian Death Worm, and it’s said to be a long, red, slimy thing that can spit venom or even shoot out electric shocks! Locals have been telling stories about it for ages, saying it hides under the sand and only pops out to attack its prey. Scientists haven’t found solid proof it exists yet, but the mystery keeps adventurers and researchers hooked. Some think it’s just a legend or maybe a misidentified snake, while others swear it’s real. Whether it’s fact or fiction, it’s one wild story from one of the world’s most desolate places!

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  18. If your in an area where these modern smaller ones have been sighted historically in the last 100 years please be careful. I know what many of those local elders saw was real and true, listen to them on this, and be very careful. They can hibernate for many years at a time waiting for the ground to get enough water from rains. This is also why some probably heard less stories of them lately due to climate change and less annual precipitation every year, eventually without water for many decades they MAY die…. Maybe. Sadly climate change is as real as these ancient animals. But given that they have survived there longer than humans the idea that the modern ones may go extinct anytime soon is a real MAYBE. They are very survival desert tolerant and can wait probably DECADES before reanimating from hibernation. Much more adapted then some desert frogs elsewhere. Now this means Gobi Desert locals are probably safe if it has not just rained lately. Olgoi-Khorkhoi are patient ambush predators and are just interested in the cattle and animals that wander over it's hibernation spot looking for water in those old desert wadis (dried up river beds) after it rains. If locals stay away and keep others away from these "wadis" after it rains they are in very little danger. Knowledge of these Olgoi-Khorkhoi is generally passed on to successive generations from elders too keep future generations safe. As these Olgoi-Khorkhoi only come back after many decades of not seeing them (and thinking they are gone, when they are just asleep), after a season of abnormal heavy rain that is seen only once in a few generations. Also, be very glad that these are not the now extinct prehistoric kind that used to be there millions of years ago that could probably eat a dinosaur as a light snack. I have seen some fossil evidence of them from satellite imagery during my own research of them and the scars they have left into the ground for that area. These larger fossils preserved into the Gobi Desert would have been what some of the old tales of travelers and nomads used to keep foreigners out of those lands in the past. As well as depictions to keep foreigners away from forbidden Buddhist knowledge and locations. Showing a fossil of a Olgoi-Khorkhoi to an would be conqueror would give them pause to reconsider invasion of the lands. On the idea that these prehistoric ones shown to them as a fossil may still be around and could eat an entire invading army that dare march across The Gobi Desert. As a note to researchers, for reference to anyone that considers any research to look for the smaller modern Olgoi-Khorkhoi for biological study in the future of those areas. Please note researchers would have to dig for them using machinery that can keep them safe while digging, (preferably remotely) into those dried up river beds. To dig deep many feet into the soil where the ground still has a small amount of water moisture along the INSIDE BEND of these historical dried up river beds as this is were smaller modern Olgoi-Khorkhoi would wait to ambush it's prey as it gets a drink of rain water. Additionally to any researchers, be smart, respectful, safe, and cautious while conducting research on these elusive and ancient animals. The deserts of The Earth have some of it's most dangerous predators. 😁😎💚💚💚💚

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