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Baby giant water bugs, like true bugs, have piercing-sucking mouthparts. Water bugs catch small fish, stab them with their beak-like mouthparts and squirt special juices into the fish. These juices change the fish's insides into a soft goo - perfect for 'babies' to slurp up.


Extinct vegetarians


Extinct vegetarians
Fossils of early hominids, "Australopithecines", found in South Africa in April were members of a group of early vegetarian humans. Paleontologists report that they may have used simple tools but probably became extinct because they were in direct competition with our earliest ancestors who were able to exploit both animals and plants for food. These early hominids lived 1.5 to 2 million years ago.
12 MAY 2000
The Globe and Mail
12 MAY 2000

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