Please educate me on what this parasitic-looking-helminthe is meant to represent.
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2025
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Oh no. No no no no no. I stopped having nightmares about this little fucker years ago. You can't make me go back!!
That's a wild read. It's baffling how such an organism can evolve with such a particular way of living.
In true valentine's day fashion it goes through the heart.
I'll never go swimming in Africa or south America now.
I assume they’re fucking? But I’m not sure.
Permanently
A previous post mentioned flatworms "penis fencing" to determine who impregnates whom, so I assume this is a post-fencing copulation session.
Love bugs
This is snarky as fuck and I love it.
Science memes has been spectacular lately (but maybe I'm just drowning in onehundredninetysix randomness and it was always this good?)
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