Gallery: Absurd Creature of the Week: The 6-Foot Earthworm That Sounds Like a Draining Bathtub
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Giant Gippsland earthworms grow to 7 feet long. Here one does a pretty half-assed impression of the letter M. *Image: Beverley D. Van Praagh*
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The worms only very rarely come to the surface. This one appears to have been dug up. Unless it dug that ditch itself. In which case, fine work. *Image: Beverley D. Van Praagh*
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Giant earthworms dig networks of permanent burrows. Here one spends time on its balcony, for which it pays the homeowners association an exorbitant fee. *Image: Beverley D. Van Praagh*
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An egg cocoon with a young worm. When they hatch they're already a foot long, though the worms would measure that differently, what with their lack of feet. *Image: Beverley D. Van Praagh*
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"What are we looking at here, Bill?" And Bill smirks and responds cheekily: "My sicknasty rain boots." *Image: Beverley D. Van Praagh*
