ApocaDocs: Barnacles Go To Great Lengths To Mate

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Posted Sat Feb 9 2008: from University of Alberta:


	Barnacles Go To Great Lengths To Mate http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1202595672 "Compelled to mate, yet firmly attached to the rock, barnacles have evolved the longest penis of any animal for their size - up to 8 times their body length - so they can find and fertilize distant neighbours. Graduate student Christopher Neufeld and Dr. Richard Palmer from the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta have shown that barnacles appear to have acquired the capacity to change the size and shape of their penises to closely match local wave conditions."

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The ApocaDocs say:

If other species can figure out how to increase the size of their penises by 8 times their body length, why... the sky's the limit!