Mastodon Feed
Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
stevegis_ssg@mas.to ("Steve Gisselbrecht") wrote:
Comin' in late, so sorry, I do actually sleep sometimes, but there's a species called Priapulus horridus. The whole dang phylum (the priapulids) is marine worms that feed by turning their heads inside out and then when they turn them back in anything stuck on the spiny outside is now in its throat. And so when the spiny throat is everted it's a little bulb on the end of a worm, and some scientist saw it and thought, "That looks like a horrible little penis," and so now the genus and species name is "horrible little penis" in Latin.