Watch a Hydra Rip Open Its Own Skin to Eat
Hydra are small, tentacled beasties that spends their time floating around freshwater, stinging and eating small shrimp. To eat, a hydra has to rip open its own skin. This behavior is well known, but it hadn’t been captured on video—until now. As described in a new paper in Biophysical Journal, scientists from the University of…
