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Giant Predatory Worms Are Invading France (qz.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: In a Peer J study published on May 22, "Giant worms chez moi!" zoologist Jean-Lou Justine of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, entomologist colleagues, and Pierre Gros, outline a discovery that "highlights an unexpected blind spot of scientists and authorities facing an invasion by conspicuous large invasive animals." About 100 citizen scientists ultimately contributed to the assessment of this alien invasion, identifying five giant predatory worm species in France that grow up to 10 inches long. The study relied on contributors' worm sightings, reported "mainly by email, sometimes by telephone." Researchers requested photographs and details about locality. In 2013, the Washington Post reports, "a group of terrorized kindergartners claimed they saw a mass of writhing snakes in their play field." These were giant flatworms! The study concludes that the alien creatures appear to reproduce asexually. They prey on other, smaller earthworms, stunning them with toxins. "The planarian also produces secretions from its headplate and body that adhere it to the prey, despite often sudden violent movements of the latter during this stage of capture," researcher note. In other words, the hammerheads produce a substance that allows them to stick to victims while killing them. The study points out that invasive alien flatworms have been spotted in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Brazil, and Australia. But the five species of hammerhead flatworms invading France are giants, growing up to 27 centimeters.
Worms however, I'm not certain.
That place has changed a LOT in the last decade. Very, very glad to not be a Frenchman about now.
"Didn't hang back"??? They got their asses handed to them in WW2. Without even a token resistance before Germany controlled the country. Stop pretending Europe actually stood up to Germany before a lot of Americans got involved. And, sure, that was after we were attacked. But your war wasn't our war. For all the bitching about the US starting wars, it's strange how the same people also bitch about us not invading Europe sooner, while concurrently claiming our help wasn't needed at all.
Fuck off already. I say end NATO, and let the French find out how Russians like their coffee prepared.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
You are a worthless fucking idiot. Cunts like you are nothing more than mentally challenged windbags who wouldn't lift a finger to help their country unless a gun was put to their head... and even then i'd expect you to turn traitor the first chance you got. I say send all the little cunts like you off to a fucking island somewhere where you can't leech anything else from society, because quite frankly, you ain't worth shit.
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