Undoubtedly you’ve already seen the above video of deep-sea squids mid-coitus at 1400 meters (0.86 miles) deep in the Gulf of Mexico. The male and…
View More Penetrating the mysteries of sex in deep-sea squidTag: sperm
There Is More Than One Way To Impregnate A Squid
All sperm are not the same. Among fruit flies the longer the reproductive tract of the female the longer the sperm. In tiny crustaceans called…
View More There Is More Than One Way To Impregnate A SquidFemale Urochordates Have Few, If Any, Inhibitions
Yep, that’s right. They get it on with any male gamete that passes their way. They just don’t give a [rhymes with duck]. Boom chaka-laka-boom.…
View More Female Urochordates Have Few, If Any, InhibitionsThe Tide Pool: Slow Colossal Squid?, Lantern Shark’s Light Switch, Longer is Faster (in Sperm)
An occasional series where I briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! ———————————- How could not think of the colossal…
View More The Tide Pool: Slow Colossal Squid?, Lantern Shark’s Light Switch, Longer is Faster (in Sperm)Same Girl
Yo Ush, What up Kels Wanna introduce you to this girl, think I really love this girl, Yeah? Man she so fine, Straight up dawg?…
View More Same Girl100 Million Year Old Giant Sperm
Barnacles may have big penises but ostracodes of the superfamily Cypridoidea have giant sperm. Ostracode range are mostly near a millimeter but sperm range from…
View More 100 Million Year Old Giant SpermPenis Fencing
To borrow from the great comedic folk duo, Flight of the Chonchords “Yeah, you sexy hermaphrodite lady-man-lady, with your sexy lady bits, and your sexy…
View More Penis FencingOn the study of crustaceous genitalia
Post by Matt Hoch. Dr. J. Matt Hoch is newly minted PhD from SUNY Stony Brook who is interested in the reproductive ecology and life…
View More On the study of crustaceous genitaliaI have a dirty secret: I am a mussel sex voyeur.
Post by Shawn M. Arellano. Dr. Shawn Arellano is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her PhD research at…
View More I have a dirty secret: I am a mussel sex voyeur.“Sleezy” sponge sexuality
Post by Amanda “not a sponge” Kahn. Amanda Kahn is currently a masters student at well-known Moss Landing Marine Laboratory, considered to be one of…
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