除了南极洲，在地球上的其他各大洲都可以见到盲蛇。 它们钻入土壤中，就像一条蠕虫一样，而它们的身长也只能达到一英尺（30厘米）。
Growing to about a foot (30 centimeters) long, blind snakes act a lot like worms, burrowing under the surface of every continent except Antarctica.
这项新的研究发表在《公共科学图书馆·生物学》上，在该研究中，产生更多自由基的蠕虫或者服用了促进产生自由基的除草剂的蠕虫竟然比普通蠕虫的寿命长。
In the new study published in PLoS Biology, worms that made more free radicals or that were treated with a free-radical-producing herbicide actually lived longer than normal worms.
基于酵母菌和土壤蠕虫的实验显示在将它们置于仅稍高于冰点的温度下24小时时，99%的标本死亡，揭示了而者均不能在极端严寒中存活。
Experiments conducted on yeast and garden worms show neither can survive extreme cold, with 99 percent dying after spending 24 hours in temperatures just above freezing.
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