Searchers shovel Northwest dirt seeking giant worm
Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 17:14
in Earth & Climate
(AP) -- 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 creatures from the movie "Tremors."