French scientists discovered that the gordian worm (so called because it mates in a tangled knot of individuals) can sometimes cheat death when its typical host, a cricket, is swallowed by a fish or a frog. The worm flees the cricket’s body and then emerges from the mouth, nostrils, or gills of the predator.
French scientists discovered that the gordian worm (so called because it mates in a tangled knot of individuals) can sometimes cheat death when its typical host, a cricket, is swallowed by a fish or a frog. The worm flees the cricket’s body and then emerges from the mouth, nostrils, or gills of the predator.