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Australia News Beep @[email protected] · 2026-10-04 · 16:00 UTC

Scientists Found a Hairy-Legged Sea Spider With a Nightmare Mouth

A photo of a new species of sea spider Tanystylum kiixin. Credit: Cormac Toler-Scott Two newly described Salish…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/au/915959/

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United States News Beep @[email protected] · 2026-10-04 · 13:00 UTC

Scientists Found a Hairy-Legged Sea Spider With a Nightmare Mouth

A photo of a new species of sea spider Tanystylum kiixin. Credit: Cormac Toler-Scott Two newly described Salish…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/us/870393/

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Planetary Ecologist @[email protected] · 2026-10-03 · 12:23 UTC

Necrophage (Zoology 🦥)

Necrophages are animals that feed on decomposing dead animal biomass, such as the muscle and soft tissue of carcasses or corpses. The term derives from Greek nekros, meaning 'dead', and phagein, meaning 'to eat'. Many hundreds of necrophagous species have been identified including invertebrates in the insect, malacostracan and gastropod classes and verte...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrophage

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