This was disproven over 50 years ago. If you’re baiting - well done.
For a long time, there was a myth that face mites didn’t have an anus to expel waste. Instead, they stored their poo in their bodies. The feces-filled body would then explode when the mite died. That’s not true, Perotti says, and it never has been. When scientists couldn’t find the face mite anus, they just assumed it didn’t exist. But it “was discovered in the [1970s],” Perotti says. Her team also confirmed it in their study.
This became a Today I Learned… I always thought this was a too weird to be true fact. I learned in biology that all living things have to produce waste, so that makes sense.
This was disproven over 50 years ago. If you’re baiting - well done.
This became a Today I Learned… I always thought this was a too weird to be true fact. I learned in biology that all living things have to produce waste, so that makes sense.