We recently heard from a reader who discovered something intriguing while hiking in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. She was near a stream when she thought she noticed the remnants of a snake. She took a bunch of photographs and shared them with her friend who is a life science teacher. Together they concluded that what they found was actually a segmented worm! As most of us do when we are curious about something, she hit the internet. She found an article we wrote in 2014 about Giant Earthworms in the Sierra Nevada mountains, so she figured she would reach out to us to see if we could solve this mystery. She sent us two photographs. The first picture encompasses just how long this worm is:
Our reader then pulled some of the worm out so that she could get a better look at the texture. She said it was exactly like a wet noodle (gross!) In the second picture we can also see the segmentation of the creature:
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