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#Mimicry is always a cool #biology topic so this bit of #science news is a treat:

Fake zombies

As if spiders aren't creepy enough, or bug victims of the famous "The Last of Us" zombie #Cordyceps #fungus aren't creepier, we have now discovered a #spider #species which has decided its strategy for survival in this world is to simply *look* like a zombie spider fungus victim. To disgust predators and put prey at ease

It's called Taczanowskia waska

It lives in #Ecuador

discovermagazine.com/new-spide…


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Mylena Masache and the #frog #species she discovered *while an undergrad* at Pontificia Universidad Católica del #Ecuador in #Quito

She and her colleagues named the frog after Neisi Dajomes, the first Ecuadorian woman to win Olympic gold, at the Tokyo 2020 Games: Nymphargus dajomesae

The species is a glassfrog and is a sign of a much larger #amphibian hotspot in the Cordillera del Cóndor

Mylena is now in grad school at UC Berkeley

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti…

#science #biology #zoology