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Super squid sex organ discovered
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| 7 July 2010
Posted on 07/09/2010 1:58:21 PM PDT by JoeProBono
The mating habits of deep-sea squid have been revealed for the first time, after the discovery of a male squid with a huge elongated and erect penis.
The male squid's sexual organ is almost as long as its whole body, including the squid's mantle, head and arms.
That shows how male deep-sea squid inseminate females; they use their huge penis to shoot out packages of sperm, injecting them into the female's body.
The discovery may also help explain how giant squid mate in the ocean depths.....
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: calamari; cryptozoology; eleventhheaven; eleventhleg; giantsquid; hugh; kraken; napl; series; squid
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To: SeaDragon
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posted on
07/09/2010 2:11:22 PM PDT
by
RikaStrom
(Pray for Obama - Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his place of leadership.")
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
07/09/2010 2:12:04 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
07/09/2010 2:14:16 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: JoeProBono
To: ConservativeMind
Now you know why the Navy guys, “squids”, have so much fun on shore leave.
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posted on
07/09/2010 2:20:12 PM PDT
by
reg45
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
07/09/2010 2:25:46 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!)
To: JoeProBono; Lazamataz
Okay I confess to opening this thread just to see what laz had to say about it.
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posted on
07/09/2010 2:27:56 PM PDT
by
NEMDF
To: JoeProBono
Is that why they call sailors “squids?”
To: JoeProBono
Well thank goodness that mystery has been solved.
I’ll be scratching this off of my “Wonders Of The World” list.... and adding it to my wife’s.
Off course, these poor critters will soon be harvested to near extinction, once the Chinese “eat strange stuff to make it bigger crowd” learns of this.
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posted on
07/09/2010 2:31:53 PM PDT
by
Gator113
(God save the Republic.....)
To: hsrazorback1
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posted on
07/09/2010 2:33:23 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!)
To: JoeProBono
The male squid's sexual organ is almost as long as its whole body, including the squid's mantle, head and arms. It's fun when you're young, but take it from me: after a while, it becomes just one more load you have to schlep.
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posted on
07/09/2010 2:34:02 PM PDT
by
B-Chan
To: paterfamilias
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posted on
07/09/2010 2:34:05 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: B-Chan
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posted on
07/09/2010 2:36:04 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: JoeProBono
they use their huge penis to shoot out packages of sperm, injecting them into the female's body. And we didn't already know this?
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posted on
07/09/2010 2:36:42 PM PDT
by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
To: B-Chan
It's fun when you're young, but take it from me: after a while, it becomes just one more load you have to schlep.Yeah, right pal. You wish.
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posted on
07/09/2010 2:37:26 PM PDT
by
BluH2o
To: Doomonyou
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posted on
07/09/2010 2:49:00 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(These days, I am a stranger in the country I was born and raised.)
To: BluH2o
If true I am surprised he has enough blood in the rest of his extremity's to type.
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posted on
07/09/2010 2:53:08 PM PDT
by
linn37
( "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: Gator113
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posted on
07/09/2010 2:55:10 PM PDT
by
Cyber Ninja
(Rebuke, Renounce, Repeal, Repeat,...)
To: windcliff
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posted on
07/09/2010 2:56:52 PM PDT
by
stylecouncilor
(What Would Jim Thompson Do?)
To: a fool in paradise; MaryFromMichigan; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; ...
o/~ When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's calamari... o/~
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posted on
07/09/2010 3:00:05 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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