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Why Do These Babies Eat Their Mother's Skin?

Bizarre stories from the slimy, smelly, creepy world of science.

Why Do These Babies Eat Their Mother's Skin?

Season 1 Episode 7 | 2m 28s

Legless amphibians, called caecilians, have a very strange way of feeding their young.

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