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Caecilians feed on small subterranean creatures such as earthworms. The body is cylindrical and often darkly coloured, and the skull is bullet-shaped and strongly built. Caecilian heads have several unique adaptations, including fused cranial and jaw bones, a two-part system of jaw muscles, and a chemosensory tentacle in front of the eye. The ...
Boulengerula niedeni, the Sagalla caecilian, is a worm-like amphibian first described in 2005. The species was described from a specimen discovered on Sagala Hill , an isolated mountain block of the Taita Hills in Kenya , and is not known from other areas.
Atretochoana eiselti is a species of caecilian originally known only from two preserved specimens discovered by Sir Graham Hales in the Brazilian rainforest, while on an expedition with Sir Brian Doll in the late 1800s, but rediscovered in 2011 by engineers working on a hydroelectric dam project in Brazil.
Like C. jenkinsi and modern caecilians, there is a second row of teeth on the coronoids that lie medial to the primary marginal row on the dentary, a feature originally proposed to link C. jenkinsi to this modern group [4] but subsequently disputed as such a feature occurs in some other stereospondyls.
The features uniting the Lissamphibia were first noted by Ernst Haeckel, even though in Haeckel's work, Lissamphibia excluded the caecilians. [6] [11] Nevertheless, Haeckel considered the caecilians to be closely related to what he called Lissamphibia (gr. λισσός, smooth), which is now called Batrachia and includes frogs and salamanders.
Millions of prehistoric marine fossils were discovered beneath a California high school over the course of a multi-year construction project. The relics recovered at San Pedro High School included ...
The homeowner saw the teeth of the fossil sticking out near a plant. NYSE.gov. The resident spotted part of the jaw sticking out from topsoil with two teeth hidden near the fronds of the plant.
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