Australia is richly endowed with earthworm biodiversity, but of the 750 or so named species of earthworm in Australia, very few have been found in arid environments. The Broken Hill earthworm, a new ...

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 ...

Baldwin Spencer, the newly-appointed Professor of Zoology in the University of Melbourne, on the anatomy of the Giant Earthworm of ... It belongs to a peculiar Australian group, of which five ...

You may never have heard of the Terriswalkeris terraereginae, a giant blue earthworm living deep in the moist soils of tropical north Queensland, but it’s the prettiest worm you’ll ever see.