You'd think that acorn barnacles would have a tough time mating, being stuck to a rock and all. Fortunately, they evolved the "longest penis relative to their body size of any animal." The Brown University evolutionary biologists behind Creature Cast explain it in a new video shot by postdoc Stefan Siebert. Professor Casey Dunn assures us that the clip, and accompanying post, is SFW. Unless, perhaps, you're a barnacle. "Mating when you are stuck to a rock"
Animal with the longest penis (relative to its size!)
You'd think that acorn barnacles would have a tough time mating, being stuck to a rock and all. Fortunately, they evolved the "longest penis relative to their body size of any animal." The Brown University evolutionary biologists behind Creature Cast explain it in a new video shot by postdoc Stefan Siebert. Professor Casey Dunn assures us that the clip, and accompanying post, is SFW. Unless, perhaps, you're a barnacle. "Mating when you are stuck to a rock"
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wow. that one in the right front really is a player--poking everyone in sight!
Rule 34 on barnacles.
Delivered.
Oh that ain't so big. Just ask your mom!
(In before all the other immature jokes.)
Curses, annoyingmouse!
I had immature jokes to bring to this discussion.
/bested
Charles Darwin after 8 years of studyind and writing about barnacles: “I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before.”
Penis envy?
Very hentai
Boom chick wa-waaah! Sexy times in barnacle town.
And here I thought it was going to be an elephant! lol.
All of a sudden the old song Barnacle Bill the Sailor takes on a whole new meaning ;)
Oddly enough, Tom Waits covers this on his new live album. He's always been at the leading edge of science.
NSFW!!
I wish I could do this at a movie theater.
Rejoice, fellow humans, for we (Homo Sapiens) have the largest penis relative to body size of any primate.
If you ever feel 'small', recall that an adult mountain gorilla's erect penis is 3 cm long, in spite of the fact that a male mountain gorilla weighs about twice as much as a human male.
That guy in Trading Places locked up in the cage with the gorilla.... Eyes don't pop out like that from no 3cm poke.
Gah! My eyes! Such craven ludeness.
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