Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you...

... the Penis Pepper.

( The image is, unsurprisingly, somewhat NSFW. )

As promised, bedbugs!

Bedbugs, of the family Cimicidae, are small bloodsucking true bugs, found in warm and tropical areas worldwide, where they feed on birds, bats, and people. There aren't many of them, just 9 species, of which only two are known to go after humans. They're pretty easy to identify, too - the gigantic CSIRO books Insects of ( Read more... )

I'm surprised this hasn't turned up here yet. First post; if I did anything wrong, please let me know.

Every now and then, especially in insects, evolution leads to some very unpleasant mating strategies. The world's many seed beetles (Callosobruchus genus, many species worldwide) are good examples. If you're a male seed beetle , the longer the ( Read more... )

RAPID metamorphosis may explain why beetle species are numerous enough to overwhelm almost any other creature on Earth. The superfast evolution of the male dung beetle's penis to wildly differing sizes in the same species could mean that new species appear within a few years rather than over millennia.
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Best parts are at 0:25 when he looks up like "YOU wanna do it?" and 0:35-0:45 where he hides it and looks ashamed of himself.

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Most birds don't actually have penises. To reproduce, they usually simply rub cloacas (The one genital opening for a bird). This is known as a "cloacal kiss ( Read more... )

Parasitic filarial nematodes, and their larval stages, are responsible for heartworm, filarial elephantiasis,river blindness, loa loa, and Strongyloidiasis. Strongyloides is an unusual one - it infects baboons, chimps & humans, & it's equally happy as a parasite and as a free living nematode ( Read more... )

4-headed echidna... you know

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3o2Q-YLPw