Green Options » unusual animals http://greenoptions.com/tag/unusual-animals Posts tagged 'unusual animals' Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:54:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Save the Giant Worm http://ecoscraps.com/2008/01/24/save-the-giant-worm/ http://ecoscraps.com/2008/01/24/save-the-giant-worm/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:54:54 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecoscraps.com/2008/01/24/save-the-giant-worm/ A giant Palouse earthworm (top), compared to the smaller southern worm. (Photo by Yaniria Sanchez-de Leon, University of Idaho)The Center for Biological Diversity went to court today seeking to overturn the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision not to grant the giant Palouse earthworm Endangered Species status. The worm, native to Washington and Idaho, can grow up to three feet long, smells like lilies and is reported to spit when threatened.

Photo courtesy of Yaniria Sanchez-de Leon, University of Idaho.

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