It's officially called the 'peanut worm'.

When it comes to bizarre animals that should in no way exist, Australia simply cannot be beat. We’re the home of the cassowary and the platypus and the desert rain frog, not to mention more than 2,000 different spiders. But that’s nothing compared to what scientists from Museums Victoria found lurking in our oceans earlier this week.

Australia…meet the dick worm.

Peculiar group of sea creatures found in deep Australian abyss https://t.co/5WtQziRTCO pic.twitter.com/l66QwStKpA — IBTimes UK (@IBTimesUK) June 17, 2017

Admittedly, the scientists aren’t actually calling it the dick worm. They’re calling it the peanut worm, otherwise known as the sipuncula. And in their defence, it does look vaguely like a peanut, I guess. It just that it looks a hell of a lot more like a dick.

Is that a Peanut Worm in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? — Allan Brauer (@allanbrauer) June 18, 2017

This particular peanut worm was found in the eastern abyss, an especially deep and mysterious part of the ocean around 100km off the country’s east coast. The scientists also found a number of other bizarre species, including the cookie cutter shark and the sea pig.

Australian scientists found a ‘cookie cutter’ shark ? pic.twitter.com/XqYPQflGXb — mikayla (@shawnssaetre) June 17, 2017

I am pretty sure the Sea Pig can taste color and bend time pic.twitter.com/3n8Eb4ydAo — ?Christa Isobel Lee? (@OhPoorPup) June 18, 2017

And guess who else was hanging out down there? That’s right: it’s your old mate the blobfish.

Still, all anyone really wants to talk about is the ocean peen. And honestly, can you blame them?

The “peanut” worm contracts inwards when threatened? ?????? Why don’t we call it what it is. ????? https://t.co/nHmrFQJZcX — TheyWalkAmongUs (@msnallie) June 18, 2017

Yeah screw diving in the Great Barrier Reef…take me to your Peanut Worm ???? — Naomi Gnomie ??? (@NaomiCranfield1) June 18, 2017

Suddenly I wanna go deep sea diving pic.twitter.com/nUKgSdwtge — ㅤ (@festivating) June 17, 2017

me jumping into the sea in Australia pic.twitter.com/JakKvvwzYP — Mascha (@BrookeMedusa) June 17, 2017

peanut worm hung af — Bront (@bmrow) June 18, 2017

In less entertaining news, the Museums Victoria team also dredged up a staggering amount of garbage. “We’re 100 kilometres off Australia’s coast, and have found PVC pipes, cans of paints, bottles, beer cans, woodchips, and other debris from the days when steamships plied our waters,” said the voyage’s chief scientist Dr Tim O’Hara. “The seafloor has 200 years of rubbish on it.”

So remember folks: always recycle. The poor peanut worm depends on it.

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h/t International Business Times. Feature image via Rob Zugaro