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We worms have gotten a bum rap. We don't get no respect. So what if we're slimey? Our mucous keeps us moist -- so we can breathe through our skin! |
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Why do people call us the "lowly" worm? We've been around for 120 million years. In the time of the Egyptian Pharoahs, Cleopatra said we were sacred. That Greek Aristotle called us "the intestines" of the soil. The scientist Charles Darwin studied us for 39 years in the last century! Do you know why? Darwin said, "It may be doubted whether there are many other animals in the world which have played so important a part in the history of the world...." |
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BY HANNAH |
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