Researchers Discover a Species That Gets Stressed, Grows a Giant Mouth and Eats Its Own Friends

Amaze Lab 2023-09-14

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Some creatures in the animal kingdom adapt when there’s little food around, but this little guy, a nematode named Allodiplogaster sudhausi, gets mean. Researchers found that when its usual diet is disrupted and it’s forced to eat fungus, it actually transforms and grows a large mouth before becoming a cannibal.

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