STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLO. - A cave biologist and research assistant with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science recently discovered a new species of worms.
When Dave Steinmann first crawled into a cave in Steamboat Springs in 2007, he saw clumps of bright, blood-red colored worms living in stream that flows through the cave.
Right off the bat, he said knew this looked like a new species.
The worms are only an inch long, and they are thin like pencil lead. They're called limnodrilus sulphurensis, also known as cave worm read more