THE recently-issued first part of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria contains an elaborate essay (of which we have something to say elsewhere today) by Mr. Baldwin Spencer, the ...

The giant Gippsland earthworm, with an average length of 1 meter, is one of Australia’s native earthworm species. It is now a protected species.

Some places have Loch Ness and Bigfoot, but the Palouse prairie of the western United States has the giant Palouse earthworm. Reported to stretch 3 feet long, spit, and—even more strangely—smell like ...

What’s 31 inches long, one inch thick, has no legs, and slithers through the ground? No, it’s not a snake, it’s an earthworm! The Giant Gippsland, found in Gippsland in south-eastern Australia, is 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 as ...