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A giant earthworm named Dave has wriggled into the record books as the largest ever found in the UK - measuring a whopping 40cm (15.7in)! Experts at the Natural History Museum said they were ...

Pity the poor robin that latches onto one of these worms. A yard long and as big around as a man's pinkie ... The native giant earthworms have been found by scientists only four times since ...

“Thankfully, I was at work when said worm was found because, oh my word, how disgusting!” she tells the publication. “We’ve had some big worms here in the past, but nothing like that gu ...