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Murder hornets and monkey cannibals: 10 times nature freaked us out in 2020Some of this year's top science stories were truly the stuff of nightmares.
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Can a cat parasite control your mind?This parasite may manipulate your brain to make you take more risks.
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Meet the 'vampire' parasite that masquerades as a living tongue
Digital models of a fish skull revealed a parasitic stowaway inside its mouth: a "tongue biter" isopod that consumed and then replaced the fish's tongue.
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Evolution turned this fish into a 'penis with a heart.' Here's how.Anglerfish are literally missing part of their immune system, but this allows them to permanently fuse during sex, new research suggests
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Mind-controlling fungus makes zombie cicadas lure other cicadas to a zombie fateNot only does the fungus Massospora infect cicadas, eat their bodies and turn them into mind-controlled zombies, it forces them to attract more cicada victims.
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Woman's sore throat was really a worm living in her tonsilA woman's sore throat turned out to have a rare — and horrifying — cause.
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Cambrian fossils show oldest example of parasites in actionFossil brachiopods from China were crusted with parasites, which may have hijacked their hosts' feeding structures in order to steal their dinner.
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'First species discovered on Twitter' is a parasitic fungus that dines on millipede genitalsResearchers discovered a new species while looking at Twitter photos. They have named the parasite Troglomyces twitteri.
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'Mind-control' cat parasite has now reached Hawaii's parksThe parasite Toxoplasma gondii has been found on Oahu, Hawaii public lands for the first time.
