Nature is Metal

Look: 50-million-year-old fossil captures a parasitic phenomenon

Trapped in amber is a gruesome end that still happens to some insects today.

by Jennifer Walter
Head Like an Orange via Giphy

Here’s a gnarly way to die: infected by a parasite that sprouts a mushroom from your rectum.

That’s what happened to this fossilized carpenter ant, which was described in a paper recently published in the journal Fungal Biology.

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