Barnaby Domigan with the giant earthworm
Chris Domigan via Stuff
Nine-year-old Barnaby Domigan was playing in his family’s backyard in Christchurch, New Zealand, when he noticed something bobbing in the water of a nearby riverbed. He grabbed a stick, fished it out and discovered it was a three-foot-long, dead earthworm, reports Radio New Zealand (RNZ).
“I could not believe my eyes,” Domigan tells RNZ, adding that he named the creature “Dead Fred.”
“I thought it was massive, and amazing, and a little bit disgusting,” he says to Liz McDonald from Stuff.
Domigan’s mother, Jo, tells RNZ her son was “pretty delighted” to find it. For her part, she thought that the worm looked unappealing and a bit…
