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Milk feeding Egg-Laying Amphibians

March 15 , 2024 392 days 419 0
  • A species of worm-like amphibian has been caught on camera feeding a fat-rich, milk-like fluid to its young.
  • The long, cylindrical creatures are the first egg-laying amphibians known to feed hatchlings this way.
  • The creature, known as a caecilian, lives underground.
  • Caecilians are descended from the same lineage as frogs and salamanders.
  • Hundreds of millions of years ago, their ancestors burrowed deep into the ground.

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