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Article: CAMERA TURNS TO WORMS; SERIES ASKS COLGATE PROFESSOR ABOUT CREATURES' ROLE.(Local)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- April 16, 2002
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Byline: Aaron Gifford Staff writer
Colgate University assistant biology professor Damhnait McHugh gets excited about bottom-dwelling, mud-eating worms in the Atlantic Ocean.
Those who watch her on the "Shape of Life" television series tonight on PBS will understand why.
McHugh will be one of the featured scientists on the series' "Explosion of Life" segment, which airs at 10 p.m. today. Another segment in the series begins at 9 p.m.
She'll explain how annelids, or segmented worms, may have been responsible for shaping today's world by creating the global warming that helped melt an early ice age.
The worms' excretions produced ...