Photo: Flesh-Eating Baby "Worm" Feasts on Mom's Skin



A wormlike amphibian from Africa, called a caecilian, allows its young eat its own flesh, researchers have found. This is the first time the practice has been observed in animals.

Photograph by Alexander Kupfer, courtesy Natural History Museum/Nature


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