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Mongolian death worm documentary online

Mark Frauenfelder at 3:16 pm Thu, Jan 25, 2007

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200701251514 "In 2005, Richard Freeman led a four man team from the Centre for Fortean Zoology to Mongolia in search of the notorious Mongolian Death Worm; a fabled reptilian beast said to spit venom and kill its victims with electric blasts. This is their story."

(Image by by Belgian painter Pieter Dirkx, from a Wikipedia article on the death worm.)

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Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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