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"Finally, the truth about barnacle sex is revealed"

David Pescovitz at 10:48 am Tue, Jan 22, 2013

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Oh, and in case you were wondering: "Genetic analysis shows that the sessile crustaceans can broadcast sperm in water." (Science News)

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  • PhosPhorious

    “Genetic analysis shows that the sessile crustaceans can broadcast sperm in water.”

    I have the weirdest boner right now.

    • esquire

      I guess that makes me a sessile crustacean.  Amirite?

      • dmatos

         Correlation does not imply causation!

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

    I thought this was already known. Isn’t Sacculina (which I’ve been reading about again because, honestly, it fascinates the hell out of me) a variety of barnacle?

  • Nadreck

    Well, broadcasting (or to be more technically correct “dudecasting”) does have advantages over point-to-point transmission.  For one thing the source can’t be overloaded by demands from the receivers.

  • http://twitter.com/missshenna Lithi

    My life is now complete. 

  • chaopoiesis

    Ripper: “Mandrake?”

  • edgore

    One more reason to never go into the water.

  • niktemadur

    Insert obligatory Monty Python here.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R2zvE615dM

  • TheGnagflow61

    Didn’t we already knew about the sexlife of Barnacle Bill ?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnacle_Bill_%28song%29

  • CLamb

    Why is it that organisms evolved out of the need to be surronded by water and can live and move about on land yet sperm remain so primitive?  Why is it that sperm haven’t evolved legs and lungs so they can cruise the boulevards in search of ripe ova?