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Hermit Crabs Do the Heavy Lifting for This Strange Parasitic Plant.

Summary by scientias.nl
On a tropical island in Okinawa, researchers filmed something remarkable: land hermit crabs feasting on the fruitlets of a strange, mushroom-like parasitic plant. And in doing so, the crabs are unintentionally, via the inside and outside, the seed dispersers of the peculiar creature. In the forests along the coast of the southern Japanese island grows an inconspicuous little plant that you could easily mistake for […] More science? Read the late…
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On a tropical island in Okinawa, researchers filmed something remarkable: land hermit crabs feasting on the fruitlets of a strange, mushroom-like parasitic plant. And in doing so, the crabs are unintentionally, via the inside and outside, the seed dispersers of the peculiar creature. In the forests along the coast of the southern Japanese island grows an inconspicuous little plant that you could easily mistake for […] More science? Read the late…

·Middelharnis, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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scientias.nl broke the news in Middelharnis, Netherlands (Kingdom of the) on Thursday, August 13, 2026.
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