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"Under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, leeches and maggots are categorized as medical devices."
Eww. Just eww! I mean I knew that leeches were used in some medical practices way back when but still...eww!
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"The South American paradoxical frog (Pseudis paradoxia) is so called because it gets smaller as it develops. It starts out as a ten-inch tadpole and 'grows up' to become a frog about three inches long."
Interesting! That I never knew!
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"A cockroach's brain is spread throughout its body. If you chop off its head, it can continue to live for up to a week. It finally dies because it can't eat."
So that's how it works. Gross.
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"The emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa) commandeers a cockroach in order to lay an egg inside the roach's exoskeleton. After delivering precise stings to paralyze the roach, the wasp--too small to carry its victim to a burrow--leads it by its antenna like a dog on a leash."
Nature continues to baffle me!
