Under the steep rolling hills of eastern Victoria are "gurgling" creatures farmers can hear but rarely lay eyes on. "It's kind of a strange little thing, that we're passionate about something we ...

Beverley Van Praagh has been studying the giant Gippsland earthworm for more than 25 years, working closely with farmers and community members to better understand and conserve these unique ...

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 ...

The giant Gippsland Earthworm, Megascolides australis ... They stick their heads in the sand to breath in moisture that condenses on their tongues or in their throats, often their only source ...

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 ...

But perhaps its most remarkable creature is a gentle, extremely delicate colossus few have had the privilege of glimpsing: the giant Gippsland earthworm, which can grow to some 6 feet long.

Reaching up to 3m in length the giant Gippsland earthworm may be the world’s largest of its kind. Often mistaken for a snake due to its size, this creature can only be found in a few locations in ...

Dr Kevin Page with fossils containing the burrowings of large sand worms ... like the worms from the film Dune. It is science fiction meeting science fact. "We know about giant millipedes at ...

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 ...