The order Diptera -- you know them as flies -- is estimated to contain at least a million unique species. And it's a good thing they have strength in numbers, because that's the only strength they've got. Eating poop until some larger creature swats, eats, or viciously shoos you to death -- that's the life of a fly. Except, that is, for the following species, which have evolved to straight mess up any poor sucker that comes at them with a newspaper.

5 The Fly That Eats Toads' Faces

James Lindsey at Ecology of Commanster

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What do toads eat? Flies, right? Lucilia bufonivora (Buffy for short) doesn't like that stereotype. Related to the common, harmless green bottle fly, Buffy's preferred brooding spot is like the twist ending of an amphibian Twilight Zone: It lays its eggs inside the head of a live toad.

It all starts when Buffy lays her eggs in the nostrils, where they soon hatch and make the toad look like the "after" picture of a coke fiend in an anti-drug PSA.

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Except drugs only make you think you've got bugs crawling inside you.

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The larvae then move on to the backs of its eyeballs and its soft, succulent brain, hollowing out the toad's entire head by the time it finally, agonizingly dies. We know what you're thinking: "Right, but where's the photo of that?" Well, since you insisted:

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And Slippy never bothered the Star Fox team with his incessant whining ever again.

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It's a grisly, graphic process, but you have to admire the sheer ballsiness it takes to fly straight into the face of your own natural killer and then stuff your genitals into it and make its skull raise your babies. But it is the safest, most secretive nursery a fly could hope for. It's the insect equivalent of strapping your baby onto the back of a ravenous tiger. And then your baby eats the tiger's face.