oh no they found a tick that will single-handedly add 5 years to your life expectancy and save the planet. This is horrible news
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2025
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We’re so good at making species go extinct. Can’t we use that power for good a couple times?
Mosquitos aren’t a large portion of any other animal’s diet due to their small size, they don’t pollinate anything that isn’t pollinated by other things (except like a weird niche species of Arctic orchid), they hold no important place in the ecosystem except for spreading misery and disease