"They're kind of like our hidden allies." The south Gippsland organic beef and lamb farmer is talking about a species of annelid worm called the giant Gippsland earthworm (Megascolides australis).

“Burrows that are occupied by giant Gippsland earthworms have very ... where small rocks that the worm has eaten help grind up food. (Some birds do this as well, by the way, as did their ...

The giant Gippsland Earthworm, Megascolides australis ... These stones become vigorously agitated in the crop and actually grinds the food as it passes through to the stomach and digestive ...

Giant Gippsland earthworms have a soft skin, so they need to live in permanent, moist burrow systems The largest adult specimens measure up to 1.5 metres in length and are about the width of an ...

Living underground and mostly out of sight, squiggly earthworms seem like such humble, mundane organisms. That is unless it's Australia's giant Gippsland earthworm, which is believed to be the ...

IN the last issue of NATURE (p. 394) I observe in an article upon Megascolides australis that a supposition is expressed that very large earthworms will be found to occur in South America as well ...

The giant Gippsland earthworm, native to southeastern Australia's Bass River Valley, can grow up to 9.8 feet long. Listed as Vulnerable, these worms thrive in clayey subsoil and wet environments.

A new project will map colonies of endangered giant Gippsland earthworms on farms. The worms, among the biggest in the world, grow to one metre long and are rarely seen above ground. Under the ...