The allghoi khorkhoy
, more commonly known as the Mongolian Death Worm, is a desert cryptid said to be able to spit acid and generate a powerful electric current. These aggressive annelids burrow underground and attack from a distance, bringing down prey as large as camels and supposedly hunting humans as well. Theories attempting to explain it's existance are varied: it has been hypothesized to be either a carnivorous worm, an unknown species of cobra, or a giant member of the amphisbaenid family. I depicted mine as a segmented worm to keep with tradition.
Personally, I don't think there's anything to this one. Sure, you could argue that there's no bodies or whatever because the desert would quickly swallow them all up. But you could just as easily argue that it's because there is no Death Worm and that the desert is just a convenient excuse to mask the fact that there's no physical evidence. Maybe I'd give it a chance if it were a more believable cryptid, but... a giant, man-eating worm that spits acid and generates blasts of electricity? Really?