A Sea Anemone Uses CARDIB to Fight Viruses—and It’s Even More Bizarre Than It Sounds

In an unusual twist of marine biology, the endangered starlet sea anemone deploys an ancient virus-fighting mechanism that surprised researchers. According to io9, the system—called CARDIB by scientists—works in ways researchers found counterintuitive. It's yet another example of how evolution has engineered solutions to survival that remain stranger than anything we've designed.

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