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How A Brain Parasite Turns Ants Into "Zombies" That Hide From The Sunlighthuman fingers holding blade of grass with an infected ant clinging to itHow A Brain Parasite Turns Ants Into "Zombies" That Hide From The Sunlighthuman fingers holding blade of grass with an infected ant clinging to it
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Host-Manipulating Parasitic Worms Lack Genes Every Other Animal HasTwo live tangled individuals of Gordionus violaceus, a freshwater hairworm,Host-Manipulating Parasitic Worms Lack Genes Every Other Animal HasTwo live tangled individuals of Gordionus violaceus, a freshwater hairworm,
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Biblical Toilets Reveal Earliest Known Case Of Diarrhea-Causing ParasiteAncient toilet Jerusalem diarrheaBiblical Toilets Reveal Earliest Known Case Of Diarrhea-Causing ParasiteAncient toilet Jerusalem diarrhea
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What Are The Absolute Worst Ways To Die? Five More Grim Answers From ScienceA caver squeezing through a tight passage. This caver is fine, others not so much.What Are The Absolute Worst Ways To Die? Five More Grim Answers From ScienceA caver squeezing through a tight passage. This caver is fine, others not so much.
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Tradition Dictates King Charles Will Now Be Served A Bloodsucking Parasite PieKing Charles looking worried, as if he's just seen a particularly gross-looking pie.Tradition Dictates King Charles Will Now Be Served A Bloodsucking Parasite PieKing Charles looking worried, as if he's just seen a particularly gross-looking pie.
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