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... that a Halloween hermit crab (pictured) may attack a snail in order to take its shell?
... that Leptotrombidium is a genus of harvest mites that are able to infect humans with scrub typhus (Orientia tsutsugamushi infection) through their bite?
... that Petalura hesperia dragonflies lay their eggs along stream margins because their larvae are semi-aquatic?
... that the five-eyed predator Alalcomenaeus is one of the most common fossils in the Cambrian Burgess shale?
... that the beetle Typhaea stercorea has been found in grain storages dating all the way back to the Iron Age?
... that the extinct crab Metacarcinus starri from Washington state is related to the graceful rock crab?