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Researchers uncover parasites that manipulate their hosts into performing bizarre and sometimes fatal behaviors. Swimming lessons, dangerous attractions, and unauthorized construction projects linked to biological manipulation.
Joro panic puts yellow garden spiders under suspicion in a growing case of mistaken identity. Body shape, web structure, and several other clues help clear the native suspect.
Researchers accuse 160 million years of convergent evolution of false advertising. Oversized skull and slender snout point to a fast-snapping predator with no living mammalian counterpart.