An Australian woman discovered a giant earthworm squirming above ground this week after torrential rains in Queensland unearthed the insect.
The photo posted by Australia’s 7 News on Tuesday showed Kelli Mace holding up the two-foot worm, believed to be a digaster longmani, with sticks. The picture was taken on Tamborine Mountain in South East Queensland, where heavy rain has been pounding the region in the last week.
Digaster longmani are rarely spotted because they remain buried in the ground until rain sweeps and flood their homes, news.com.au reported. They are one of the largest worm species and are only found in South East Queensland and northern New South Wales.=read more
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