SEQUIM — Brad Griffith gets down and dirty with earthworms and loves it. “You’re talking about the bottom of the barrel here,” he said with a wry grin, indicating that if you can’t have a sense of ...

It’s a small, fleshy creature, no more than an inch in length, with elongated spines and menacing pharyngeal teeth used to crush food. It lived in muddy shallow waters some hundreds of millions of ...

At least, I've never heard an earthworm grunt. If they did, they might be easier to find when I want to go fishing, but one afternoon in the campground at Ratcliff Lake I saw people clustering around ...