Welcome to Earth, home to human-sized salamanders and skin-eating worms
Siphonops annulatus is one of several caecilian species known to indulge in maternal dermatophagy. (Public Domain/)What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s hit podcast. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week hits Apple, Anchor, and everywhere else you listen to podcasts every-other Wednesday morning. It’s your new favorite source for the strangest science-adjacent facts, figures, and Wikipedia spirals the editors of Popular Science can muster. If you like the stories in this post, we guarantee you’ll love the show.FACT: There are worms that eat their moms’ skin and salamanders as big as peopleBy Jessica BoddyThis Earth day, I couldn’t not mention my most favorite animals: amphibians. Back in the day (college), I took a field course in herpetology, which encompasses both amphibians and reptiles, and I’ve been infatuated ever since. And it...