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When lifting a chromatic during an expedition successful nan Anti-Atlas Mountains successful Morocco, researchers came crossed an different sight: 3 blowfly larvae surviving wrong a termite nest.

“I instantly thought ‘Wow, this is thing cool,’ because I’ve ne'er seen thing for illustration that,” says entomologist Roger Vila of nan Institute of Evolutionary Biology successful Barcelona.