Click the sand to turn. Click a numbered side to raise a layer; click again to lower it.
Herbert’s ecology, real granular physics and the artistic model are different kinds of knowledge. This guide identifies their sources.
Fictional facts described in the original novels. These are not biological measurements.
Research on granular materials and real small animals. Extrapolation to a giant worm has not been validated.
Conceptual organs, paths and gestures created to explain ideas; these are not a canonical dissection.
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