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Judi Lynn

(160,515 posts)
Wed May 23, 2018, 06:37 PM May 2018

Giant 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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Giant predatory worms are invading France -- and nobody noticed for almost two decades (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2018 OP
And in the United States they have invaded Washington, D.C. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2018 #1
Video doc03 May 2018 #2
You beat me to it... Sancho May 2018 #3
Did you know another Tremors is coming out this year? Kilgore May 2018 #4
Released on Netflix May 1! csziggy May 2018 #5
Woooooo Hooooooo!!!!!! Kilgore May 2018 #6

csziggy

(34,135 posts)
5. Released on Netflix May 1!
Thu May 24, 2018, 12:07 AM
May 2018

I'm going to have to add that to my watchlist! Thank you for mentioning it.

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