Amphibian ‘worms’ feed young their own flesh

Baby caecilians scrape the fatty skin from their mum’s back.

How far would you go to feed your kids? Mothers of some worm-like amphibians called caecilians literally give a piece of themselves, by allowing their young to eat their flesh.

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