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Milk feeding Egg-Laying Amphibians
March 15 , 2024
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- 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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