Mongolian death worm: myth or reality of the deadly Gobi desert legend
A two-foot-long sausage-shaped worm that kills with a touch or electric discharge may sound like science fiction, but tales of this urban legend have persisted for nearly a century in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. The Mongolian death worm, known locally as "olgoi-khorkhoi" (meaning "large intestine-worm"), fir…
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