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Mount Rainier National Park: Ice Worms

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This is part 3 of our Mount Rainier National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Mount Rainier National Park for kids: Part 1: Fire Inside the Frozen Giant Part 2: Glaciers on a Volcano Part 3: Ice Worms Part 4: Wildflowers and the Pacific Jumping Mouse -- Worms… on a glacier?! High on Mount Rainier, something wiggles up out of the ice every summer evening: the ice worm, the only worm known to spend its whole life in glacier ice. It melts if it gets too warm, can’t survive if...

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