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A tiny crustacean uses her claws
to attach herself to a greenland
shark's cornea. The parasite is
called a copepod. She eats cells
off the surface of the shark's eye,
and the lesions make pale circles
over the shark's pupil. The shark goes
blind from the scars, at which point
the copepod starts to make a baby.
She trails her egg sac out of the
shark's eye. The sac drifts alone
like a loose rope, waving.
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