Ice Worms

[George P Burdell]

I never knew they existed

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Thriving in conditions that would turn most living things to Popsicles, these inch-long earthworm cousins inhabit glaciers and snowfields in the coastal ranges of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. They move through seemingly solid ice with ease and are at their liveliest near the freezing point of water. Warm them up slightly and they dissolve into goo.

 

[LookingGlass]

I never knew something like that existed either. Huh, that's interesting.

 

[Dualist]

Interesting, never knew they were still around.

 

[LookingGlass]

Makes you wonder, how long have they been around? Since the ice age? While the sabertooth, and mastodon trounced above them?

Wonder if anyone reported on them before. Weird.

 

[cirrhosis]

Isn't that something? How about that!

 

[edro]

I saw them on Animal Planet's Most Extreme Animals... they are pretty amazing.

 

[compuwiz1]

 

[conehead433]

The thread title immediately reminded me of a dumb old movie called Ice Pirates. Space Herpes!

 

[BriGy86]

they mentioned something like that on the X files