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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 17 > Mythic giant Palouse earthworm brings search party to Northwest

Mythic giant Palouse earthworm brings search party to Northwest

Shock technique among methods being used to find a worm that was considered extinct

By Nicholas K. Geranios / The Bulletin
July 17, 2009

MOSCOW, Idaho — The giant Palouse earthworm has taken on mythic qualities in this vast agricultural region that stretches from eastern Washington into the Idaho panhandle — its very name evoking the fictional sandworms from “Dune” or those vicious....

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