Strange balls of worms on Texas road baffle experts

Hold on: That's not spaghetti.

Strange writhing balls of worms appeared on a road in Texas after days of historic storms and flooding hit the region.

The park rangers who discovered the curious balls were amazed to see them arrayed in a near-perfect straight line on a road through the Eisenhower State Park in the southwest of the state.

Park Superintendent Ben Herman told ABC News in America:

Biologists and park officials alike are baffled as to why the creatures behaved like this, but one theory is that heavy rain may sound like predators beating down on the ground to the worms, so they move and clump together to avoid them.

The worms stayed for two days before heading back into the soil and leaving behind small mounds of manure.

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