Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Wood-eating armored catfish

From the Amazon, of course, comes a strange new species of fish. An armored catfish that eats wood. That's it's mouth in the photo at right.

A protozoan that lives in the gut of the catfish breaks down cellulose and makes wood into sugar for catfish food.

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