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![A red-and-yellow striped hermit crab leans out of a cone shell.](http://upload.luquay.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Ciliopagurus_strigatus.jpg/120px-Ciliopagurus_strigatus.jpg)
- ... that a Halloween hermit crab (pictured) may attack a snail in order to take its shell?
- ... that Leptotrombidium is a genus of harvest mites that are able to infect humans with scrub typhus (Orientia tsutsugamushi infection) through their bite?
- ... that Petalura hesperia dragonflies lay their eggs along stream margins because their larvae are semi-aquatic?
- ... that the five-eyed predator Alalcomenaeus is one of the most common fossils in the Cambrian Burgess shale?
- ... that the beetle Typhaea stercorea has been found in grain storages dating all the way back to the Iron Age?
- ... that the extinct crab Metacarcinus starri from Washington state is related to the graceful rock crab?