We spend a lot of time answering reader questions about various sorts of worms. Most frequently, we try to identify what type of worm (or other sort of creature) a reader found based on a picture (if we're lucky) and whatever other information a reader cares to provide. To mix things up, though, we decided to imagine if someone sent us a picture of the Dune sandworm and asked us to identify it, perhaps with a question such as this: "I found a large reddish, brown worm that is several hundred feet long and a hundred feet thick. What is it and how do I get rid of it?" We have no advice on the matter of getting rid of the sandworms from Dune, which would require a small army, but we can offer some whimsical speculation about what a sandworm is. That is, if the sandworms in the fictional Dune universe Continue reading [...]…