It can grow over 2m long, is made up of 400 body segments and makes a strange gurgling sound as it moves beneath the ground.
They say everything in Australia can kill you: crazy-poisonous eastern brown snakes, enormous saltwater crocodiles, and, until recently, the late ill-tempered supercriminal Mark “Chopper” Read. But ...
Monster earthworms — the largest ever found on British soil — have been discovered on a Scottish island, researchers announced. The worms — four times the size of regular earthworms– are about 16 ...
THE recently-issued first part of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria contains an elaborate essay (of which we have something to say elsewhere today) by Mr. Baldwin Spencer, the ...
Some places have Loch Ness and Bigfoot, but the Palouse prairie of the western United States has the giant Palouse earthworm. Reported to stretch 3 feet long, spit, and—even more strangely—smell like ...
IN the last issue of NATURE (p. 394) I observe in an article upon Megascolides australis that a supposition is expressed that very large earthworms will be found to occur in South America as well as ...