There are mites that live in our pores, mate on our faces, and are now merging with our bodies.

And short of a Zombie Apocolopyse, I can't imagine anything more gross, but this is actually happening right now. To you. And me.

See this handsome individual?

Its formal name is Demodex folluculorum and it’s a microscopic mite so tiny it sleeps inside the pores on our faces. And our faces are also where it mates, gives birth to even more mites, and now, scientists say, it is becoming one with us.