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Earthworms or any other worms are unique in Biology in that they have absolutely no skeletal structure whatsoever. A worm uses it's body to move. There is no muscle coordination, and it simply uses a stretching maneuver, similar to snails and slugs. also called Hydrostatic skeleton

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