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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months ago

Leeches Didn't Always Suck Blood — Ancient Fossils Reveal They Swallowed Prey Whole

www.discovermagazine.com

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Leeches Didn't Always Suck Blood — Ancient Fossils Reveal They Swallowed Prey Whole

www.discovermagazine.com

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months ago
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Learn about a 480-million-year-old leech fossil that revealed that ancient leeches didn’t have the biological components necessary to suck blood.
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    Very cool, but I’m not thinking better of them . Dang things probably swallowed some of my ancestors whole

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      Makes them a good insult still even in the ancient past

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    “We don’t know nearly as much as we think we do,” said Karma Nanglu, a paleontologist at the University of California - Riverside

    too fucking true lmao

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    They already try it, but currently are too small do do it with us.

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    …some leeches do this today. The fuck is this article?

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      Which ones? A wiki link perhaps?

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        Dude there a hundreds of species of predator leeches, this is common knowledge.

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          I don’t know anything about them

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