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TIL that instead of venom, the Braconid wasp produces an immune-suppressing virus which paves the way for its parasitic larvae. This adaptation is the result of a 100-million year old virus which altered the wasp’s DNA leading to the formation of an organ whose sole purpose is to assemble the virus.

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