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The real-life cousins of Dune’s magnificent sandworms

10:20 am on 17 March 2024

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With the second part of Denis Villeneuve’s film franchise of Frank Herbert’s fantasy novel, Dune currently in cinemas, we ask if the fictional worms in the movie share anything in common with real worms. 

Joining us is Dr. Luke Parry, an Associate Professor of Palaeobiology at the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University. 

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