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Related: About this forumGiant predatory worms are invading France -- and nobody noticed for almost two decades
Jeremy Berke
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When an amateur naturalist kept digging up strange, flat-headed worms in his garden outside of Paris, he knew something was amiss.
The naturalist, Pierre Gros, emailed a picture to Jean-Lou Justine, a zoologist at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Justine thought it was a fake, but Gros persisted and kept sending in more images of the huge worms.
"The man is bringing back worms from his travels, and he pretends he finds them in his garden!" Justine told The Washington Post of his thoughts upon seeing the images.
But the two were on to an unsettling discovery: These worms, native to tropical Asia, were invading France and nobody had noticed.
More:
http://www.businessinsider.com/giant-predatory-worms-are-invading-france-2018-5?r=UK&IR=T
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