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feminizing fungi

Submitted by dorothycolleen on Fri, 2014/11/14 - 3:09am

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Strange science fact of the day:

There is a kind of fungi that attacks male crabs, effectively feminizes them by causing them to lose their fighting claws and create a womb-like structure that the fungi can then use to create more of itself.

There's probably a story for Big closet in there somewhere ...

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