Remember the fish that absorbed their mates? Here’s the next installment on weird animals. Caecilians are tropical amphibians that completely lack limbs. Hence, smaller species sort of resemble earthworms (they also live underground), though larger species might remind you more of snakes. The largest ones are up to five feet long. But that’s all the boring stuff. It turns out that in at least one of the species the young live off their mother’s skin. As in, the mother regrows a nice, thick, fatty layer of skin every three days and periodically the young have a feeding frenzy in which they tear it to shreds. BBC has an awesome clip here.
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Alan Schmierer