#caecilian — Public Fediverse posts
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Wormlike #animals are first #amphibians shown to pass #microbes to their offspring https://phys.org/news/2023-07-wormlike-animals-amphibians-shown-microbes.html
#ParentalCare contributes to vertical transmission of microbes in a skin-feeding and direct-developing #caecilian https://animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42523-023-00243-x
"#Caecilians are an elusive type of #amphibian that primarily live #underground and look like a cross between a worm and a snake. One of the few things that is known about caecilians is their unique method for feeding their young."
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220-Million-Year-Old #Fossils Identified as Oldest Known Caecilian https://www.sci.news/paleontology/funcusvermis-gilmorei-11597.html
#Triassic stem #caecilian supports dissorophoid origin of living #amphibians https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05646-5
#Caecilians have cylindrical bodies with a compact, bullet-shaped skull that helps them burrow #underground. They spend their lives burrowing in leaf-litter or #soil searching for prey such as #worms and #insects.