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Worms are invertebrate legless animals with a long and soft «tube-shaped» body. Hundreds of thousands of species known are classified as being part of their family. When speaking of worms, we usually refer to those species of annelids, insects and flatworms. Annelids, like earthworms, are the most common species of worms.

Annelids living in the soil, like earthworms, are also called “earth engineers”: they aerate the soil, for they turn it over, and dig tunnels in it. This underground work helps plants to grow. Most species of worms have both female and male organs within the same organism, but they have sexual reproduction. However, some species, when they reach full size, break up in several parts to develop into as many adult worms. In other words, a worm may give birth to 7 or 8 clones!

A worm can regenerate if it gets cut off: the smallest part dies, but the longest grows a new tail, for each segment of a worm contains all the elements essential to life: digestive tube, blood vessels, skin (for breathing..). Indeed, each segment of a worm's organism contains the same set of organs, and each organism has two 2 orifices: a mouth and a rectum.

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They are many other species of worms: a larva, an immature stage of an insect, is a worm. When they're hosted by a mammal (a human being), they're called “parasites”. Parasites like taenia, or “tapeworms”, may be “hosted” in the human guts. When they manage to enter your body, they live on the food you ingest.

In some tropical countries, palm worms are a refined type of food. But worms are not always harmless: southern worms might be 5 meters long! The longest worm, lineus longissimus exceeds 150 feet in length! However, the sandworm, as seen in movies like “Beetlejuice” or “Dune”, is just a fictional creature....

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