The tender art of tadpole parenting https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/the-amphibians-that-evolved-parental-care

What #Amphibians Can Teach Us About the #Evolution of Parental Care: Eva Ringler et al. https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102221-050519

"From poison #frogs to worm-like #caecilians, some amphibians are hardworking and surprisingly creative caregivers"

Researchers have found an amphibian that makes milk for its babies

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/07/1236408925/researchers-have-found-an-amphibian-that-makes-milk-for-its-babies

#biodiversity #nature #amphibians #caecilians #convergentevolution #evolution

These Bizarre #Amphibians Changed The Chemical Landscape To Survive A Plague Of #Snakes https://grrlscientist.medium.com/these-bizarre-amphibians-changed-the-chemical-landscape-to-survive-a-plague-of-snakes-50f5ca16bd3b by @GrrlScientist

"#Caecilians are a group of legless serpentine #burrowing amphibians that primarily live hidden in #soil or in stream beds and resemble either a large #worm or a #snake."

Wormlike animals are first #amphibians shown to pass #microbes to their offspring.

#microbiome #transmission #Caecilians

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-wormlike-animals-amphibians-shown-microbes.html

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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World’s first worm dating back 220 million years has been unearthed in Arizona | The Independent
#Paleontogy
#Worm
#Fossil
#Caecilians
#Kligman
#Funcusvermis
#ChinleFormation

Named Funcusvermis gilmorei, it lived at the beginning of the age of the dinosaurs

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/world-oldest-worm-arizona-found-b2269883.html

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.