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These flesh-eating ‘superworms’ can clean a skeleton in hours

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Museum curators faced with cleaning animal skeletons for display may soon turn to an unusual new tool: flesh-eating beetle larvae known as “superworms.” Jessica Hubbard, Social Media Strategist at Science, explains. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4xQOIlu CREDITS: (VIDEO) NILOOFAR ALAEI KAKHKI/STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY STUTTGART; (PHOTO) FRANCISCO WELTER-SCHULTES/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS; (MUSIC) C. BURNS/SCIENCE; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) J. HUBBARD/SCIENCE #Superworms #Science #ScienceShorts