Comments on: The Giant Worms of Japan

By: fooks

fooks — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:30:01 +0000

but then again, what could eat a 30ft worm?

By: PhotoExpert

PhotoExpert — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 08:50:27 +0000

As a fisherman and coming from a fisherman’s perspective, I really enjoyed this post.

I wonder as you do mystery_man, are there bigger worms out there lurking beneath the soil. What about the Mongolian Death Worm?

There are still a lot of mysteries in the world to unravel and this post gets one to thinking.

By: dogu4

dogu4 — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:25:11 +0000

Re: earthworms, interestingly, according to what I have read in Charles Mann’s “1493″ the eastern forests of North America were without the common earthworms we associate with them now prior to the columbian exhange. Where I live now, Alaska, was also without earthworms presumably due to the recent Ice Age, which leads me to wonder how populations of earthworms have distributed themselves over the world particularly during the cold dry conditions that dominated the northern hemisphere during the last few million years. Cheers.

By: volmar

volmar — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 04:42:45 +0000

Very nice article, mystery_man. Regarding Minhocão, I can’t really say what it was, but I believe it has been extinct for quite some time now. I like the Glyptodon theory, and in this case it wouldn’t have been a worm, but a mammal… Anyway, sightings were quite common in the highlands of Minas Gerais in the XVII and XVIII Centuries, but for almost 200 years Minhocão has not been reported. The last sighting happenning in the 1840′s. There were a couple of hoaxes after that, but we can’t really count them as sightings, can we?