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Crayfish and worms may die out together

2016-05-25 12:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BBC: Research suggests that bizarre, tentacled worms which live attached to crayfish in the rivers of Australia are at risk of extinction - because the crayfish themselves are endangered. It would be an example of coextinction, where one organism dies out because it depends on another doomed species. Just a few millimetres long, the worms eat even tinier critters in the water or inside the crayfish gill chamber. Their symbiotic relationship stretches back at least 80 million years. The new...

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