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Article: Dig into Worms - This bullfrog has snatched a nightcrawler, one of billions of worms on the planet.(Short Story)
- Article from:
- Ranger Rick
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
- Author:
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What's a Worm?
Here's what most worms have: long, thin, soft bodies. Here's what they don't have: legs, bones, shells, or other hard parts. Worms aren't tough. So most of them stay protected and moist by living out their lives in hidden places--in burrows, under rocks, inside bodies, between sheets of ice, and especially in soil.
More than a mouthful about these slimy, squirmy, wriggling, squiggling wonders!
LONG-AGO WORMS
Worms were some of the very first animals to live on Earth. They've been around since long before the first dinosaurs and even before the first fish. The fossil below shows the burrows of worm-like animals that ...