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'It's happening': Ice worms emerge in Pacific Northwest glaciers
Accuweather ^
| July 30, 2021
| Monica Danielle
Posted on 07/31/2021 8:37:31 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Scientists are beginning to unlock the mysteries of glacier ice worms which are the largest organism on Earth that spend their whole life cycle in ice. "It's happening," scientist Scott Hotaling told a reporter for OPB as he gestured across Paradise Glacier high up on Mount Rainier in Washington.
He was referencing hundreds of thousands of tiny, black worms emerging from a vast expanse of white snow.
Ice worms were first discovered in 1887 on Alaska's Muir Glacier. They have since been spotted on most of the coastal glaciers in Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. It was an exciting discovery because, for the longest time, biologists considered high-altitude glaciers sterile places where life was essentially impossible.
“I think they're like the mascot of mountain glaciers in the West," Hotaling told AccuWeather about ice worms. They're incredibly cool, they're incredibly abundant and they're the largest organism on Earth that spends its whole life cycle in ice. "When they're around, there are hundreds per square meter. You cannot walk without stepping on them...so, it's a very dramatic thing when they are present."
The inky, black ice worms are only about an inch long and are distant cousins to earthworms. Instead of dirt, these worms wiggle through glacial ice eating snow algae, bacteria and anything else that ends up on the snow.
They may spend their entire lives in snow and ice, but ice worms can't survive subfreezing temperatures. Hotaling has conducted thermal testing and says the ice worms can survive comfortably for at least a day or two in temperatures as high as 75 degrees Fahrenheit (around 24 degrees Celsius), and although they thrive at temperatures around 32 degrees Fahrenheit (zero degrees Celsius), they die when temperatures drop below that threshold.
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
I left off the link. How did I do that? Here it is for those who want the full scoop on the
Ice Worms.
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posted on
07/31/2021 10:48:35 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?” ~ joma89)
To: All
I left off the link. How did I do that? Here it is for those who want the full scoop on the
Ice Worms.
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posted on
07/31/2021 10:49:34 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?” ~ joma89)
To: Organic Panic
So the tiny ice worm is the largest organism on earth?
Who writes this
= = =
Some one with a really small appendage.
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posted on
07/31/2021 10:51:12 AM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
To: Organic Panic
You stopped reading too soon!
Scientists are beginning to unlock the mysteries of glacier ice worms which are the largest organism on Earth that spend their whole life cycle in ice.
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posted on
07/31/2021 10:52:03 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?” ~ joma89)
To: Organic Panic
“...largest organism on Earth that spend their whole life cycle in ice...”
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posted on
07/31/2021 10:57:14 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
To: PIF
I hear they are repelled by COVID survivor pheromones, though. Vaccination, on the other hand, ATTRACTS them!
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posted on
07/31/2021 10:59:37 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?” ~ joma89)
To: xp38
I’m holding our for Murder Worms. Or Ice Hornets. Whichever can get here first.
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posted on
07/31/2021 11:00:23 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?” ~ joma89)
To: PIF
Thank goodness it’s pointing northwest toward Seattle. I’m 250 miles east north east of Rainier.
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posted on
07/31/2021 11:03:35 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?” ~ joma89)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Can you eat them? If not, are they good for fish bait?
5.56mm
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posted on
07/31/2021 11:05:20 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
(Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Never though about collected fishbait on a glacier.
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posted on
07/31/2021 11:15:55 AM PDT
by
fso301
To: ProtectOurFreedom
I hear they are repelled by COVID survivor pheromones
—
Nope. COVID survivors’ pheromones ... icing on their cake, so to speak. The vaccinated just take a bit longer to fully digest ...
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posted on
07/31/2021 11:28:10 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
If grammar serves me right shouldn’t it have been “which” rather than “that”
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posted on
07/31/2021 11:39:19 AM PDT
by
Organic Panic
(Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
To: carriage_hill
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posted on
07/31/2021 11:40:12 AM PDT
by
Organic Panic
(Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
To: Organic Panic
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posted on
07/31/2021 11:46:57 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Take the glaciers to a vet and have them get rid of the worms...
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posted on
07/31/2021 11:50:11 AM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
To: BipolarBob
Is “Shark-izzard” a thing yet? Get Hollywood on that.
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posted on
07/31/2021 11:59:55 AM PDT
by
rarestia
(Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
To: All
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posted on
07/31/2021 1:14:30 PM PDT
by
SteveH
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Now my son can believe in those Snow Snakes I used to warn him about when he was young.
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posted on
07/31/2021 1:25:35 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
To: Organic Panic
Here's to Grammar...
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posted on
07/31/2021 2:12:16 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?” ~ joma89)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
I see a future Horror Movie..
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posted on
07/31/2021 5:40:02 PM PDT
by
Bikkuri
(If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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