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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 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 · 8 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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    8 months ago

    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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