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Natural History | September 1, 2003| | Copyright

Brobdingnagian earthmoving "worms" dig their tunnels with a hydraulic ram.

When I first saw a live caecilian, I was convinced that I was looking at an earthworm large enough to strike fear in the heart of an Alabama large-mouth bass. The animal squirming through the sphagnum moss was Dermophis mexicanus, a Central American species of amphibian that reaches two feet in length and is as fat around as the most decadent Cuban cigar. Like common earthworms, caecilians' brown-gray bodies sport closely spaced, circumferential grooves; the animals' blunt heads bear a striking resemblance to their ...

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