My seven-year-old daughter immediately recognised that the creature in the apple was in fact an earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris).

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After a move to the US, he founded Shiny Entertainment in 1993, scoring an instant hit with Earthworm Jim.

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His lips were fat and earthworm pink, his eyes were asymmetrical, and his eyebrows were like forests of black wire.

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"However, the most convincing evidence is the change in the N15 signature in earthworm tissue, " Dr Eisenhauer told the BBC.

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Its dashing architecture, like a giant curved earthworm lined with a concrete honeycomb, was widely seen as a showpiece of French engineering and design flair.

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Backed up by some unlikely friends - in this case a centipede, earthworm and grasshopper - James squashes the aunts with the peach and floats away.

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He also made Aladdin and Earthworm Jim.

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Why not try Earthworm Jim HD?

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Liz would ride her bike up and down the driveway, waiting for her father to call her, to tell her to come quick, to come see the misshapen gourd, or the earthworm, or the potato bug before it got too dark, and she would, before it went black as pitch.

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