Wiglett

Wiglett is a brand new addition to the Pokedex in Pokemon Scarlet & Violet, but is it a Paldean regional form of Diglett or a different species?

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Become as crab - Nature abhors a vacuum, but nature bloody loves a crab. You see, there's this thing called "convergent ev...

Wiglett pokes a part of its body out of the sand to feed in the ocean. or the dozens of Pokémon that look like off-brand Pikachus! Now, can someone explain why a totally-unrelated-to-Diglett Pokémon was given a name almost identical to Diglett? Have the Pokémon designers really run out of shapes already? The most famous and eminently meme-able example of this phenomenon is [carcinisation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation) — multiple crustacean species evolving into crab, or crab-adjacent, forms. [convergent evolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution)", in which two entirely separate species end up evolving into very, very similar-looking (but unrelated!) forms.

The Pokemon Company has officially unveiled Wiglett, a brand new Pokemon who looks an awful lot like Diglett. After an 'unofficial' reveal yesterday, ...

The Pokedex entry notes that Wiglett has an exceptional sense of smell, with the ability to pick up scents from over 60 feet away. After an "unofficial" reveal yesterday, The Pokemon Company has released a new Pokemon Scarlet and Violet trailer showing off Wiglett, a garden eel-esque Pokemon that looks a lot like Diglett. [Pokemon](/category/pokemon/) Company has officially unveiled Wiglett, a brand new Pokemon who looks an awful lot like Diglett.

Honestly, you need to grow up. It's a worm! The latest Pokémon to be revealed for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is a wiggly worm called Wiglett, and clearly ...

Apparently The Pokémon Company is showing bits of Scarlet and Violet to the Pokémon World Ecological Society, which I’m delighted to learn is a thing. Multi-lingual discussion during the video has Pokécologists (everyone start using this term) question whether it’s related to Diglett, but then conclude that no, it’s a whole new species of Pokémon. During this, while showing off a few previously-known Pokémon, there was the reveal of a brand new Gen IX monster, the Wiglett. Horrendously pale, and with a face, but it appears human beings are conditioned to see anything long and floppy as a penis. It looks maybe somewhat eel-adjacent, but then also looks like a more alert lugworm, perhaps even with a flash of geoduck. Wiglett, it seems, is a result of divergent evolution, an aquatic cousin of the Ground-type Gen 1 Diglett.