Mary's Monday Metazoan: The Flying Pigbutt Worm

In honor of a recently banned creationist pest, I give you…Chaetopterus pugaporcinus.

It seems appropriate, somehow.

(via The Featured Creature)

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Do I really need to say that this looks like a vagina? Probably not. Just call me "Obvious-Observation-Person"

@Qua you are not wrong, indeed tt looks like a vulva ... maybe an alien vulva

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