Sandworm may refer to:

Living animals

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Arenicola marina The lugworm or sandworm (''Arenicola marina'') is a large marine worm of the phylum Annelida. Its coiled castings are a familiar sight on a beach at low tide but the animal itself is rarely seen except by those who, from curiosity or to use as ...

'' (Lugworm), called "sandworm" in the UK * '' Alitta virens'', formerly ''Nereis virens'' (King Ragworm), called "sandworm" in the US * Hookworm larvae which cause cutaneous larva migrans, called "sandworms" in the southern US

Fictional animals

* Sandworm (''Dune''), from Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel ''Dune'' and its derivative works * When Barbara and Adam Maitland die they come across a sandworm creature that lives on the desert of Saturn in the 1988 Tim Burton film '' Beetlejuice''

Other

* ''Sandworm'' (installation), an environmental art installation in the Wenduine Beach, Belgium created for the Beaufort Triennial of Contemporary Art *

Mongolian death worm The Mongolian death worm ( mn, олгой-хорхой, ''olgoi-khorkhoi'', "large intestine-worm") is a creature alleged to exist in the Gobi Desert. The creature first came to Western attention as a result of Roy Chapman Andrews's 1926 boo ...

, said to inhabit the Gobi Desert * Sandworm, a hacker group within the GRU (G.U.), a foreign military intelligence agency of the Russian Federation *''Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers'' (2019), a book about the group by

Andy Greenberg Andy Greenberg is a technology journalist serving as a senior writer at ''Wired'' magazine. He previously worked as a staff writer at ''Forbes'' magazine and as a contributor for Forbes.com. He has published the books '' This Machine Kills Secrets ...

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