Worm Earthworm
And this is the weirdest and terrible creature on the list this time, it is the worm Earthworm or also commonly referred to as Gippsland Worm.
The stranger's friend for the new layman who sees this species will surely think if the Gippsland worm is a Snake, because of its unusual size.
Discovered in the early 1870s by Professor Frederick McCoy, an animal named Latin Megascolides australis, although it has a fairly jumbo size with a length of 10 feet or 3 meters more with a diameter of 1-2 feet. But worms are far from dangerous, even threatened with extinction.
This is because the only habitat where the worm is found is in the Bass River Valley in southern Gippsland, covering an area of about 100,000 hectares bounded by the towns of Loch, Korumburra and Warragul, is increasingly being displaced by the development of human settlements.
In addition, animals that almost spend their whole life in the depth of 1-2 meters, has a reproductive cycle that is quite long. A Gippsland Worm can only produce one 4-7 cm egg in one reproductive cycle. And unlike most other worms that can hatch thousands of worms, gippsland worm eggs, will only incubate one worm just a baby.
Incubation period of this egg is quite long, because it takes up to a year before hatching.
Given this fact, it is surprising that the Gippsland Worm, belonging to a group of endangered species.
