So this is an animal apparently

[Vermiform]

Individual zooid of Cephalodiscus dodecalophus, from Sedgwicket al. (1898).

The Cephalodiscids

Among the more obscure inhabitants of the world's oceans are the Cephalodiscidae, a family of small (only a few millimetres in length), larg...

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[Vermiform]

Tell me Darwin did not see these cause he would have gone nuts again trying to study their dicks.

 

[jane]

tell me you also wouldn't like to know about their dicks. only normal person would see this and wonder about that immediately

 

[Vermiform]

tell me you also wouldn't like to know about their dicks. only normal person would see this and wonder about that immediately

Darwin's barnacle story is infamous, the man died in part because of them.

But yes I would like to know this thing's dick as well

 

[Vermiform]

One might think that Darwin's favourite animals were the so-called ‘Darwin's finches’. In my view, Darwin's favourites were without doubt the cirripedes (barnacles). Indeed, Charles Darwin spent as many as 8 years (1846 to 1854) studying barnacles, eventually writing two monographs on extant cirripedes, and two shorter ones on fossil cirripedes [1], [2], [3], [4]. He was so involved in this work that, concerning a gentleman neighbour, one of his sons asked: “where does he do his barnacles?”, as if studying barnacles were every father's main occupation.

Darwin and barnacles

In this essay, I discuss the origin of Charles Darwin's interest in cirripedes (barnacles). Indeed, he worked intensively on cirripedes during the yea…

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Remind me some other time to dig up the full story. The man had a mental breakdown with these critters at one point.

 

[Ruffles]

That is one fucked up potato

 

[Baka]

looks like something outta hollow knight

i approve

 

[RÆM]

looks like something outta hollow knight

i approve

I was going to say looks you made the drawing. I like it too. Weird worm potato.