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Snake uses its split jaws as a knife and fork

Many animals use their limbs to handle their food and obtain edible pieces from it. To take a relatable example, we humans peel fruits, fillet fish, and break crabs with our hands and tools. In contrast, most animals that lack limbs (like snakes) would be... click to read more

Yosuke Kojima | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

snake

feeding

handling

jaw

snail

Reading time 4 min

published on Dec 10, 2021

Life’s early dinner parties

Ediacaran life is represented by a group of bizarre-looking fossils that are the remnants of the first complex life in Earth's oceans from over half a billion years ago. During this time, life was sessile and tranquil, with few traces of large-scale predation and movement.... click to read more

Brandt M. Gibson | PhD student at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

Ediacaran

modeling

fluids

commensalism

feeding

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Jan 9, 2020