The $214,206 Threadlike Worm Mesenchytraeus Solifugas

NASA has provided a 3-year grant to Daniel Shane of Rutgers-Camden to study ice worms. He finds a glacier, waits for the sun to go down, and then scoops ice worms into a cooler which he closes with duct tape and zaps off to Camden. An assistant, Brittany Morrison, helps him with the work. Brittany is particularly interested in the energy molecule that the black ice worms have.

Things are different with ice worms. Regular worms don