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Humongous Earthworms

Posted by Zak Tenossen on Sunday, May 24, 2009, In : News 

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Is this real? If you have the stomach, click on the image to head to an image gallery and our very ordinary investigation.

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So, are these photos real? And the answer, amazingly is… probably yes.

Here in Brazil we have our very own Minhocuçu (Rhinodrilus e Glossoscolex spp) which can easily grow beyond half a meter in length an almost an inch in diameter.

And it’s not by far the longest earthworm recorded.

The Microchaetidae family in South Africa is a group wh...


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Strange creature in northern lake a bryozoan: scientists

Posted by Zak Tenossen on Sunday, May 24, 2009, In : News 

The bryozoan Pectinatella magnifica recently found at the Rung Lake in the northern province of Vinh Phuc
Scientists are researching the origin of a type of bryozoan that has developed recently in a 70-hectare lake in the northern province of Vinh Phuc, killing the fish and leaving local residents very worried.

Bryozoan are invertebrate animals that reproduce by budding.

The creatures appeared in the Rung Lake in Tu Trung Commune in the province’s Vinh Tuong District l...

 

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