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Animals
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In the ocean depths, males attach to females until their circulatory systems fuse and they lose their own vital organs.
Biology
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How a suicidal larva takes control of an insect's jaws to force it to wait patiently on a blade of grass to be eaten
Nature
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How a tiny insect deceives an entire colony with chemical signals and acoustic pulses to be treated with royal honors at the expense of legitimate larvae.
Biology
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It injects a handful of cells into its host's joint, chemically castrates it, and reprograms its behavior to turn it into a surrogate mother.
Animals
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The jaw snap of Mystrium camillae accelerates from zero to top speed in just 23 microseconds.
Nature
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The only known organism capable of biologically and functionally replacing an entire organ in a vertebrate animal.
Animals
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To fuse for life with the female, this deep-sea fish disabled genes in its own immune system, defying the laws of vertebrate biology.