Tarantula with fungal antlers!

[skreidle]

Fungal infection causes tarantula to grow antlers | io9 -- [This image may look like something dreamed up for a surreal horror movie, but it's a real horror for the tarantula in question. This unfortunate arachnid is infected with Cordyceps, a parasitic fungus that replaces its host's tissue with its own.]

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[evilstorm]

Delicious! I mean, how awful.

[neumeindil]

.... I didn't really want to sleep tonight anyway.

[1337nik]

My thoughts exactly.

[bloodcurdling]

[kharmii]

I saw that. It was really creepy. The ant colony would take any ant that showed signs of sickness and take it far away from the hive or else it would infect the whole comm. Then they showed other insects that had fungus, like a moth with a mushroom growing out of its back.

Edit: Oh, they have the video on the link.

[monkeyprincess7]

NO!

[half_shadow]

That's exactly how I felt! :-(