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Invasion Without the Body Snatchers

FROM THE JUNE 2003 ISSUE

Invasion Without the Body Snatchers

By Lauren Gravitz|Sunday, June 01, 2003

RELATED TAGS: BIODIVERSITY, ECOSYSTEMS

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The yellow sac under this European green crab is a parasitic, castrating barnacle that normally helps keep the creature's population in check.
Photograph courtesy of Todd Huspeni.

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