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Super squid sex organ discovered
bbc ^ | 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: OnTheDress

LMAO..... It’s already there!!!


41 posted on 07/09/2010 3:01:34 PM PDT by Gator113 (God save the Republic.....)
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To: JoeProBono

bump


42 posted on 07/09/2010 3:06:32 PM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: dangerdoc

43 posted on 07/09/2010 3:09:52 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: JoeProBono

He was very popular with the lady squids.


44 posted on 07/09/2010 3:55:27 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

Lady Squid Stuffing

Squid with steamed pork stuffing served with pickled garlic, fresh lime chili sauce, and pickled garlic sauce


45 posted on 07/09/2010 3:59:43 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: JoeProBono
after the discovery of a male squid with a huge elongated and erect penis

What the researchers failed to mention is that it's only the blacks of the species that are so... well... endowed?


46 posted on 07/09/2010 4:51:52 PM PDT by adorno
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To: adorno


47 posted on 07/09/2010 4:55:11 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: Slings and Arrows

If Admiral Ackbar was a Mon Calamari, why wasn’t he a walking squid?


48 posted on 07/09/2010 5:23:12 PM PDT by Darksheare (I've been told that I drive like a cop. I don't know if that's a compliment or an insult.)
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To: JoeProBono
Joe, whatever that is on the sign, it's not a squid.



Stay out of the water!


49 posted on 07/09/2010 8:04:39 PM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: dangerdoc

Dangerdoc-san, Domo Arigato Gozaimasu for Japanese Print.


50 posted on 07/09/2010 8:08:12 PM PDT by seoul62
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To: Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono
...packages of sperm...

All I can think of is UPS.

51 posted on 07/09/2010 8:18:15 PM PDT by TheOldLady (Pablo is very wily)
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To: Darksheare

Is this a Chewbacca Defense variant?


52 posted on 07/09/2010 8:59:36 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: JoeProBono; Slings and Arrows
Super squid sex organ

Poetic, almost.

53 posted on 07/09/2010 9:01:58 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: llevrok

Now stop!

I resemble that remark...


54 posted on 07/09/2010 9:04:42 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!(FR #1690))
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To: llevrok

Now stop!

I resemble that remark...

USS Ajax AR


55 posted on 07/09/2010 9:05:35 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!(FR #1690))
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To: TheOldLady

FedEx - it has to be there overnight.


56 posted on 07/09/2010 9:22:29 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: martin_fierro

Art is inherent in Nature.


57 posted on 07/09/2010 10:00:18 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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Hey there, ladies...

I was a Boatswain’s Mate...


58 posted on 07/09/2010 10:20:26 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (30-year smoker, E-Cigs helped me quit, and O wants me back smoking again?)
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To: JoeProBono; reg45; llevrok; paterfamilias; RandallFlagg; Slings and Arrows

Please, no more sea men jokes.


59 posted on 07/10/2010 2:32:01 AM PDT by martin_fierro (former Coxswain)
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To: JoeProBono; abb

60 posted on 07/10/2010 2:58:02 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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