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Made by Rain, Mushrooms Also Make It
Millions of tons of mushroom spores may seed rain over forests
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Sleeping Sickness Parasite Secretes Strange String of Beads [Video]
A sinister string of beads made by the organisms that cause sleeping sickness helps the parasite both elude our defenses and make us sick
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The Venus Flytrap Can Count Past 2
A new Sesame Street star in the making?
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What Lives in Your House (Besides You)
Although scientists have intensively studied household pests, almost nothing has been done to survey everyone else—and everyone else turns out to be the silent majority
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Puzzling Parasite Makes Rare Appearance as Fossil
Enigmatic tongue worm found fossilized together with a 425-million-year-old host for the first time
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This Immaculately Preserved Beetle Walked with the Dinosaurs
You will not look this good in 99 million years
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134 New Beetles and Dragonflies, Hiding in Plain Sight
Dozens of new sparkling dragonflies and sculpted beetles were easy to find. We just had to look
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Wonderful Things: Opossum Shrimp Leeches
Opossum shrimp leeches combine three concepts that do not seem to belong together into one awesome parasite
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First-Ever Fossil Mud Dragon Appears to Be Inside-Out Sarlacc
Modern mud dragons are kind of cute. At least one of their ancestors, however, was not
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Are These Dinosaur Blood Vessels?
Scientists claim proteinaceous blood vessels from a hadrosaur that roamed proto-Montana 80 million years ago somehow survived
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