bogleech:bogleech: bogleech:Another museum model I’d love to own, this is what’s inside
bogleech:bogleech: bogleech:Another museum model I’d love to own, this is what’s inside a barnacle, my favorite crustaceans! Look at that little cutie, like an alien space baby! Isn’t it just delightful how its whole body forms a little house with a smaller body inside? Its digestive tract is like the plumbing! I wrote extensively on barnacle biology here! Bringing this back because some of you have no idea I bet. No idea that this animal lives in a volcano made from just the top of its head. The things sticking up are its legs, right where they would be on its shrimp cousins.But the thing coiled up in a spiral, that’s the penis -- source link
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