Hell yes. These socks go anywhere: stay home where the wood(like) floor is at, you get to speed skate and drift the corners all day long on your way to the kitchen. Someone calls you up and wants to go out, you just need a cute dress and some patent leather shoes. Shit is awesome
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These are the pro moves I'm here to learn. That is so perfect
I'm picturing a ghost realtor being super frustrated over not being able to get out from under this one unit because it's haunted by an angry human who occasionally haunts the residents by yelling obscenities at them
Haha welp, I'm out
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua
This is an example of the type of tongue-replacing creature you found, not necessarily the same species.
So that's a fun twofer: you know a possible name for what you saw, and you know that a parasite replacing a host's organ is one of nature's fun survival strategies!
It's a bad title. We've known about kleptosomes for a while, but this study talks more about how it works: how the stolen organelles are maintained by the animal and used as an energy source when there's no food. (Interestingly, when they start to break down the commandeered chloroplasts, the plasts degrade like they do in nature, leading to a color change for the slug!)
Being on your parents' insurance is its own safety net
This cat is perfect.
Update: This cat is so pretty, they make me want to hug my cats again, that's how perfect this cat is
I am definitely wearing striped thigh highs when I meet a god so we can be sock twins