Good morning! Watch the worms mate!

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apostropher has the link to the video: penis fencing flatworms. They are impressively athletic.

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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! England's second-largest city has decided to drop apostrophes from all its street signs, saying they're confusing and old-fashioned.
When I was in elementary school I was taught that if you have a noun that ends in `s', and you want to make that noun possessive, you do it by placing an apostrophe at the end of the word and that is all. Thus, in referring to the theorem proved by Thomas Bayes, you would write Bayes' theorm.
tags: Satomi's pygmy seahorse, Indonesian wildlife,

I guess at some point a species decided to make love, not war, and and behold - male and female sexes!

Imagine you have to fight with your wife each time you wish to inseminate her! Should she be the winner, SHE will inseminate YOU with one of her two big penises! That is equality!

Some sort of trade descriptions act (UK only?) ought to apply to the naming of things. Those worms aren't flat. They're all frilly and ripply. :-D

It probably happens a lot. The synapsid name turned out to be wrong. The Big Bang naming was deliberate sabotage though.

I noticed this a while back and it's really cool. I think that flatworms have the right idea myself, just have a quick tussel and the loser ends up with the babies. The perfect reproductive system and really gives meaning to the term 'penetration'.

You know you've been reading too much of Pharyngula when ... you get an erection watching worms.

You know you've been reading too much of Pharyngula when ... you wonder if male flat worms get Y chromosomes and in general, how worms manage their sex chromosomes?

You know you've been reading too much of Pharyngula when ... the word sex makes you think of worms, jellyfish, skid.