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2026-09-21

A barnacle's penis is 8 times its body.

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A barnacle is cemented to a rock for life, so its penis does the walking: up to eight times its body length. 12 #Barnacle #MarineLife #AnimalFacts #WeirdScience #OceanFacts

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    Precisely proportioned: intertidal barnacles alter penis form to suit coastal wave action (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2008)

    doi.org

  2. 2
    Ecology and Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity in the Penis and Cirri of Barnacles (Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2016)

    doi.org

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