Education. Giant earthworm is a record breaker. Published. The worm has turned: the 10-acre former Wildlife Wonderland Giant Earthworm Museum in Bass has been ripped down after years of vandalism. The park is on the South Gippsland Highway, on the way to Phillip Island. 4 November 2016. The Wildlife Wonderland Giant Earthworm Museum was an attraction with giant, three-metre earthworms and other exhibits, before closing in 2012. The former Wildlife Wonderland Giant Earthworm Museum owned by property investor and service station owner Nick Andrianakos was covered in … But at 40cm, he is a slip of worm compared to others around the world. Earthworm Watch is a countrywide survey of earthworms and soil quality that is run by the Natural History Museum and other groups. Native to southeastern state of Victoria, and found only in the Bass River Valley of South Gippsland, the Giant Gippsland worm (Megascolides australis) … Section BBC News. 400 million year old gigantic extinct monster worm discovered in Canadian museum by University of Bristol Artistic reconstruction showing W. armstrongi attacking a fish in the Devonian sea. The park and museum are open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily. The earthworm was named Dave by the stepson of the man who discovered it. Until it closed in 2012 amid animal welfare concerns, Wildlife Wonderland Park near Bass, Victoria, was home to the Giant Earthworm Museum. Dave the earthworm may have impressed the UK, including the researchers who measured him at the Natural History Museum in London. From the road you see a pinkish model of an earthworm—on your right as you travel from Melbourne. According to a media report at the time, the operator was managing the museum without a licence and had been evicted by the property owners. It was then sent to the Natural History Museum in London for evaluation, where museum … News Giant Worm ripped down Dec 09 2020 Updated December 9, 2020. Displays and educational material on the Giant Gippsland earthworm, which can grow up to 3 metres in length, and other natural history of Gippsland are also featured. Approximately 20 displays, including; the only giant earthworm museum in the world, Australia's only indoor wombat interpretive centre, the largest Great White Shark, at 5 metres, preserved in an aquarium viewing tank, trout fishing farm, dingo den, snake pit, bird aviaries and farmyard displays. Inside the worm-shaped museum, visitors could crawl through a magnified replica of a worm burrow and a simulated worm's stomach. Unfortunately, this Museum closed in … ... 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