While it is an invertebrate, it does have some organs similar to birds, some fish, and gastropods – the crop and gizzard. An earthworm’s crop is used to store food, and the gizzard is used to ...

They don’t have teeth, but they do have a gizzard, where small rocks that the worm has eaten help grind up food. (Some birds do this as well, by the way, as did their ancestors the dinosaurs.

A Q& A with Rhonda Sherman, extension specialist at North Carolina State University, sometimes called the “worm queen”: How ... before moving on to the gizzard. There it is crushed and ground ...

Although they are very different animals, worms, like many poultry, have gizzards. “Worms will ingest some larger soil grains, and then they use the strongest and largest of those grains ...

Earthworms have a Gizzard too, where churning muscles crush the incoming food, thanks to bits of sand and rock, the earthworm has hoovered up. Hey, you do what you can if you don't have teeth ...

An earthworm is a sightless creature with a gizzard, an alimentary canal, and a body made of rings surrounded by bristles. Earthworms don’t move by zigzagging like snakes. Rather, they compress ...

The function of an earthworm is simple: they eat soil and grind it up, using an organ similar to a chicken’s gizzard, and then poop it out. Worm droppings are called “castings” and because of the worm ...

All birds have gizzards, but so do crocodiles, alligators, earthworms, some fish and crustaceans and even dinosaurs, according to the "8 Things You Didn't Know About Gizzards" page on the website ...

Once ingested, those organic materials get ground up by the worm's gizzard and broken down even more by enzymes and microbes in the worm's gut. What comes out the other end is teeming with ...