Fact 2 - The ice worm lives in temperatures just below freezing. They can be found on the surface of glaciers at dawn, dusk, and on cloudy days.
Fact 3 - They are about an inch long and can be white, yellow, brown or black.
Fact 4 - Ice worms eat airborne pollen grains, fern spores and the red algae that lives in snow and sometimes colors it pink. Unable to exist at temperatures much below freezing, ice worms must remain in temperate glaciers.
Fact 5 - Ice worms were first described in 1887 on the Muir Glacier in Alaska. Famed Seattle photographer Asahel Curtis took pictures of worms on Mount Olympus in 1907 and dubbed them "snow eels."
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