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Monday, November 30, 2009

Yay Barnacles!


I bet you didn’t know that the barnacle (the little animals that look like rocks that are always stuck to the bottoms of boats and docks) have the largest penis to body size ratio in the animal kingdom.

Yup, it’s true.

Barnacles reproduce sexually. That means one barnacle needs to be able to deliver their sperm into another barnacle. The only problem is they cannot move. So to fix that, nature gave them super long penises. They literally can send their penis out, let it float around in the water until it bumps into another barnacle and then crawl in and inseminate the other barnacle.

Isn’t nature really badass?

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