Wellworm

A cousin species to the terrifying Felworm, wellworms are huge predatory ambushers. At maturity, their bodies reach about five feet in diameter and forty feet in length. Their insides are mostly hollow, with the majority of their length being technically a mouth and throat.

A wellworm hunts by burrowing up to the surface until only several inches away from breaking ground, holding up the unsupported earth with several tongue-like appendages extending from its gaping mouth. It will then sit in this position for sometimes weeks on end, waiting for prey large enough to collapse the ground to step across their trap. When such a creature comes along, it retracts its tongues, letting both the animal and earth plummet down their throats.

At the bottom of the throat, about ten to twelve feet down, a sphincter separates the digestion chamber from the stomach. Here, small spines eject from the walls of the wellworm and inject its prey with a paralytic and hemotoxic venom, subduing the prey and digesting it alive. It then sucks the digested slurry into its stomach and goes along its way.

Wellworm eggs are kept and hatched in the same area prey are digested, allowing the young to feed on the trapped creatures.