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Our article is already repulsive in the headline, but it may be worth emphasizing that this article is disturbing and not suitable for the faint of heart. And if you succeeded in this introduction - enjoy, this is a very interesting document


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These creatures have sex on our facial skin every night

Our article is already repulsive in the headline, but it may be worth emphasizing that this article is disturbing and not suitable for the faint of heart.

And if you succeeded in this introduction - enjoy, this is a very interesting document

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28/06/2022

Tuesday, 28 June 2022, 09:16 Updated: 10:57

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On the facial skin.

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This may be the most disgusting sentence we've written recently, but we'll do it as fast as removing a band-aid - tiny eight-legged creatures may have sex on your face while you sleep.

Researchers at the University of Reading say that Demodex folliculorum is invisible to the naked eye and that it is found on the skin of all humans.

And if that's not disgusting enough, they also find that they have some strange mating habits.



The scientists whose research was published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution have revealed the secret lives of these creatures, from their body structure to their evolutionary future.

The first complete DNA analysis ever shows that they are becoming such simple organisms that they may soon become an integral part of us.

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"We found that these creatures have a different arrangement of body parts relative to other similar species, because they adapt to a protected life within pores," editor-in-chief Professor Alejandra Proti said in a press release. .



There are more than 48,000 species of mites, two of which live on the human body: the Folliculorum demodex, which lives near the pores and hair follicles, and the Demodex brevis, which actually likes to stay deeper inside the oily mammary glands inside.

Researchers can only see them under a microscope - with their help they look almost like tiny thorns.

Humans end up spending more time with strange creatures than any other animal.

They even protect the skin from acne and scars by keeping pores open.



The authors of the study say that these creatures are relatives of spiders and that they can be found buried upside down in our hair follicles, and that they eat the oils we secrete.

They "connect" to each other near the surface of the skin.

Their existence is isolated without exposure to external threats, competition to harm hosts or encounters with other mites.

Their tiny legs are activated by only three unicellular muscles and are devoid of UV protection and have lost the gene that causes animals to wake up in daylight.



Their unique garden arrangement also brings about their strange mating habits.

Males have a genitalia protruding upward from the front of their body.

They need to position themselves below the female during mating and mate, as both cling to human hair.

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So far for the graphic descriptions.

The authors of the study claim that this evolutionary process is the first step towards turning these creatures into symbionts - very much related to their much larger human host.

The lack of exposure to potential mates that can add new genes to their offspring may have led them to an evolutionary impasse - and a possible extinction.



"These creatures have been blamed for a lot of things," says editor-in-chief Dr. Henk Brig of Bangor University.

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