Barnacles go to great lengths to mate


	Barnacles go to great lengths to mate

Fast T friend

2-7-2008 11:22 AM

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the longest penis...

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2-9-2008 2:34 PM

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                                                                EDMONTON, Alberta, Feb. 7    Canadian researchers have discovered barnacles have evolved the longest penis of any animal their size -- up to eight times their body length.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/184162,barnacles-go-to-great-lengths-to-mate.html"><DIV>
The scientists said barnacles -- compelled to mate, yet firmly attached to rocks -- developed the large penis in order to find and fertilize distant neighbors.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/184162,barnacles-go-to-great-lengths-to-mate.html"><DIV>
University of Alberta Professor Richard Palmer and graduate student Christopher Neufeld have shown that barnacles can change the size and shape of their penises to closely match local wave conditions. When wave action is light, a longer (thinner) penis can reach more mates but, at times of higher wave action, a shorter (stouter) penis is more maneuverable in the flow, they said.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3817662C-92EA-4110-97D4-ABDAA44F357C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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