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Stories about: scavengers

Squat Lobster Proved to Eat Wood One of the lobster's more distant relatives, the squat lobster, is known for its ability to consume a wide range of seemingly uneatable foods. Seeing how these animals live at the bottom of the oceans, they cannot really afford to be picky, if they want to survive. But some of these species have taken their diet... 4 January 2010 02:41 GMT Ancient Arthropods Were Home Scavengers According to fossil records dating back as far as 500 million years ago, the earliest arthropods to venture on land also looked for discarded shells to use for protection. The lineage is far older than that of the hermit crab, originating some 200 million years ago, and that was thus far the oldest known to exhibit s... 24 August 2009 06:33 GMT