Spiky creatures wash up on Texas beach, described as 'your worst nightmares

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Prickly fireworms, also called bristle worms, washed up along the Texas Gulf Coast and beachgoers are on high alert.

The National Park Services (NPS) described the bristles as tiny, needle-like spikes, each one filled with venom, according to FOX Weather.

"We’ve found a few of these marine polychaetes, sometimes called bristle worms, washing up over the past couple of days on large logs. The logs these were found on had gooseneck barnacles all over them, which might have been what the worms were feeding on."

The nightmarish name for the fire worm comes from the pain inflicted when the tiny spikes are touched — a fiery pain described as lasting hours.

The bristles are filled with a mixture of neurotoxins to be used against predators.

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