The south Gippsland organic beef and lamb farmer is talking about a species of annelid worm called the giant Gippsland earthworm (Megascolides australis). It earns the name "giant" because an ...

Local councils in Gippsland are moving to protect the habitat of the region's rare and protected giant earthworm. A small area of west and south Gippsland, east of Melbourne, is the only remaining ...

Living underground and mostly out of sight, squiggly earthworms seem like such ... and found only in the Bass River Valley of South Gippsland, the giant Gippsland worm (Megascolides australis ...

“I’ve done lots of other things along the way but my primary work has always been the giant Gippsland earthworm. They’re just fascinating.” This earthworm species occurs only in a 40,000ha area in ...

The giant Gippsland Earthworm, Megascolides australis ... The largest earthworm on record was found in South Africa and measured 22 feet long! Here is a fact that someone actually researched.

The giant Gippsland earthworm, native to southeastern Australia's Bass River Valley, can grow up to 9.8 feet long. Listed as Vulnerable, these worms thrive in clayey subsoil and wet environments.

They averaged only about half the size of the Giant Gippsland earthworm found down in the ... He said the digaster longmani ones, restricted to the south, were the longest and largest ...

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 in other continents.

They averaged only about half the size of the Giant Gippsland earthworm found down in the ... He said the digaster longmani ones, restricted to the south, were the longest and largest ...

on the anatomy of the Giant Earthworm of Gippsland, the largest earthworm yet known. This worm, of which some examples attain to the extraordinary length of six feet, was first described by Prof.