From big, slimy earthworms to microscopic C. elegans, worms are everywhere... or are they? It turns out, as is often the case on Tangents, that everything you thought you knew about worms is a lie, up to and including their very existence!
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From big, slimy earthworms to microscopic C. elegans, worms are everywhere... or are they? It turns out, as is often the case on Tangents, that everything you thought you knew about worms is a lie, up to and including their very existence!
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[Trivia Question]
Dave the longest earthworm
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/04/uk-biggest-worm-record-breaking-in-cheshire
[Fact Off]
Geosmin smells like danger to C. elegans
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220405143530.htm
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35323022/
Ice worms in glaciers
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1097-4687(200012)246:3%3C192::AID-JMOR3%3E3.0.CO;2-B
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10930-020-09889-x
https://glaciers.nichols.edu/iceworm/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/amazing-ice-worms-threatened-melting-glaciers
[Ask the Science Couch]
Invasive earthworms in North America
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S003807170600527X
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-006-9019-3
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0038071720302510
https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/Invasives/fact/jumpingWorm.html
Invasive flatworms that prey on earthworms
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5969052/
https://eastland.agrilife.org/invasive-hammerhead-flatworms/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3858619
[Butt One More Thing]
Largest human coprolite has parasitic worms
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lloyds-bank-coprolite
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/51Et55R_RuCmabtTgQllzQ