This looks like cannibalism. The biology is the most extreme parental care evolution has ever built.That golden coil is a Scolopendra, one of roughly 3,000 centipede species, and she spent the entire brooding stretch wrapped around those eggs without hunting or eating, guarding the clutch with her own body while she wasted down.The young eating her is the design. Matriphagy converts her whole remaining body into one energy dense first meal, and broods that get it survive at far higher rates than

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