Nuclear war may not kill cockroaches, but the toxin from this 55-metre worm can

By Toby Crockford
Updated March 23 2018 - 8:26am, first published 6:46am

While there is hot debate around whether cockroaches could survive a nuclear war, a sure bet is that they could not survive the toxin from a bootlace worm.

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