What other than only four have been seen would make them think that it is endangered? There could be millions of them or even trillions of them. There was a story several years ago about giant worms in Australia. These may be related and this work could be quite wide spread in its habitat. Idiots jumping the gun, an attempt to stop some sort of industry I am sure.
Geez, stop using shock to get the animal. What kind of scientist are these people?!
It sounds pretty sadistic to me: '"The electro shocker is pretty cool," said Joanna Blaszczak, a student at Cornell...'
A few years ago I found a worm that was approximatly 10-12" long and 2-3 inches in circumferance in south eastern Pennsylvania.
Liberal nutballs at work wanting to make some critter an endangered species when noone can even find any. If they were endangered then digging for them would be illegal and hundreds of Palouse country farmers would have to sell their farms to environmentalist whackos. This is like making the tyrannous saurus rex an endangered species in 2009. With obama as pres, soon anyone with an IQ above 45 will be the endangered species
OMG...just how much money is being spent digging for worms?? Yeh, our economy is "first" priority!!
Ok my gosh...please dont tell me this cr...p is what is being produced from the colleges now days. Chasing never seen worms? and then nearly demanding that the Obama administration place these never seen worms on the endanger species act? Time I think that the EPA gets involved and double checks the air and water in the liberal northwest. LOL
Another sad tail of where this country is heading to. Very sad, very sad.
An as of yet discovered worm on the endangered species list?? Shouldn't they at least FIND ONE??? Wow...shows you how anxious this government is to control everyone and everything.
Well, Plastic Pelosi got 16 million for her mouse project.....
Bet these earth nuts will get at least 10 million for this worm of a "project" !
Do these morors EVER run out of ways to figure out how to WASTE hard working, tax payers money ???
EVER ????
Anyone can find "giant earthworms" in the river levees along the the Mighty Mississippi .They are called tough worms by the locals becouse they are tough as a rope.Locals use them for fishing for the Giant Catfish of the Mississippi River.They are sure not endangered.There's billions of those things.
I don't understand the "rare but kill them if you find them" mentality. I live in the woods in Arkansas, been birding for 20+ years. The Ivory-bill has actually darted in and out of my yard for a couple of years. One very old tree in particular, it loves to perch for long periods, do it's 3 drill routine, and honk in that "plastic child's toy horn" voice.
NO DOUBT that it is the Ivory-bill, NOT the Pileated. I don't have to see the blooming beak to know for sure. The Pileated does NOT have large white wing bars when perching, nor on its back when flying, only on the under wing. Several other people have seen it here, in my yard and I have shown them these differences. There is no doubt.
When I notified a University and told them that I even suspected where the nest was located, they instructed me to shoot it the next time I saw it, for proof.
WHAT??? And isn't that against the law???
I'm sorry, but looking for big spitting worms sounds like something I tried to talk girls into my Freshman year.
WOW,,electrical shock for worms.. new technology???
45 years ago, I just used an extension cord, a series 50 watt
lightbulb and a couple rods. had all the bait I needed.
and frenchman: this only 'tickles' the worms and draws them to
the top of the ground.
You could catch some humongous fish with a worm that size. ;)
Or you could feed the poor and house the homeless with the money you save from not using tax dollars on stupid worms.
Nope, I'm not a liberal - a conservative realist. :P
Obama loves big hard worms. I'm sure he'll take care of it when he gets back from his vacation.
That's what I want to do this summer. Look for giant worms 15 feet underground in 120 degree weather. I think, that there a few people, who need 480 volt shock therapy.
When I was young we could find a small stump from a fallen tree, saw it flat, cut a groove in it with a hand saw, put the end of the hand saw in the groove and rapidly shake the saw blade back and forth. The vibration of the saw would drive "some kind of giant worms from out of the ground (up to a foot long)" . Sure wish I could get a 12 million dollar Grant to try that method. I have an old hand saw. Oh yea a vibrating hand saw made many of the special effects noises in the original Star Wars Movie. Yep a hand saw helped make George Lucas and Harrison Ford wealthy.
Another liberal teacher looking for Our money to look for giant maggots--she should be looking in Congress That Umiker could hook up the 480 volts to Barney Franks genitals. Hard working individuals are an endangered species since Obama took office.
Take a look into the crystal ball...
...and so millions of acres were closed to farming to protect these poor endangered worms.
The farmers had their land seized and the BLM was given the management of it.
5 years later (after no worms were found) those millions of acres are sold in a private auction to Chinese investors with no money changing hands. Just a standard debt for equity swap.
These guys aren't scientists, they're "eggheads" doing alot of worthless "research" at our expense. The entire idea of endangered species is wrong. Spending billions to "save" animals is absurd.
People are dying fron diseases and these idiots are concerned about worms????
Not with my taxes!!! Damn this government!!!!
I personally think that most politicians are worms themselves - after knowing far too many for far too many years. I think we should dig for bigger and better ones.
But that's just my opinion. I sometimes beg to differ from even my own opinion. hehehe
I saw one a couple of years ago. When I was camping out in the woods. It was the same night I saw big foot, I tried to take some pictures, but I was out of film.
"Searchers shovel Northwest dirt seeking giant worm"
There's a big one at the White House.
My mistake, he's a leech.
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