<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/31b94f42-2130-43f8-bb58-245d1ee2ec59/9D8FAED0-58B4-4F70-9632-8A302DFF341E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/080613_dermatophagy" href="http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/080613_dermatophagy" style="font-size: 11px;">www.world-science.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/080613_dermatophagy"><DIV>A bi­zarre prac­tice in which some crea­tures eat their own moth­ers’ skin has turned up in more than one spe­cies—sug­gest­ the strat­e­gy is at least 100 mil­lion years old, re­search­ers say.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/080613_dermatophagy"><DIV> Ma­ter­nal skin-eating was first re­ported found in a worm-like am­phib­i­an known as <I>Bou­len­ge­ru­la tai­ta</I><I>­nus</I>. Now sci­en­tists say they have ob­served it in a sec­ond, si­m­i­lar an­i­mal, <I>Siph­o­nops an­nu­la­tus</I>. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/080613_dermatophagy"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.world-science.net/img/8B9D8EF5-EB8E-4124-A560-E3093A358AD9" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/080613_dermatophagy"><DIV> The two are dis­tantly re­lat­ed cae­cil­ians, mem­bers of an or­der of trop­i­cal am­phib­i­ans that re­sem­ble earth­worms but have ver­te­brate char­ac­ter­is­tics such as jaws and teeth. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/080613_dermatophagy"><DIV> The odd feed­ing tech­nique is called der­matophagy, from the Greek words for skin-eating.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9D8FAED0-58B4-4F70-9632-8A302DFF341E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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