The Thump-Lure of the Gobi

The nomads of the southern Gobi call it Olgoi-Khorkhoi — the "large intestine worm." Two feet of blood-red, headless, limbless thing that kills by touch and spits venom, raising waves of sand as it moves. In 1922 the Mongolian PM described it to explorer Roy Chapman Andrews in exact detail. In the '……