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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The title and image of the article are definitely clickbait. It's like saying "women are evolving penises", but the article is about goddamn flies.

Here's what they look like

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Good grief! You can't just go posting that sort of thing in public, at least tag it NSFW.

Now please excuse me while I go and clutch my pearls in horror.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The less popular sequel to dance dance revolution

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

LESS popular? No idea what consumers are thinking, that sounds like a banger...

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

This better win some clickbait award.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Man, I just woke up. That title is not something I was prepared to be hit in the face with.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Man, I just woke up. That title is not something I was prepared to be hit in the face with.

:))))))

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Time for a nutritional meal

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] gravitas_deficiency 1 points 1 week ago

Hey, you’re finally awake!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

The site looks artificially sloppy and a clone of https://bioengineer.org/female-penis-evolution/

The paper is over a decade old.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

…further emphasizing the critical role of seminal gifts in their reproductive strategy.

There is a joke that can be made from this for sure.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well that was quite the read.

Essentially, these female cave flies are a real life succubus.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Science people trollin'

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fascinating article and goes to show quite how many ways evolution can solve the same problem.

[–] EmoDuck 10 points 1 week ago

Sooner or later, all our genitals will evolve into crabs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'm too sleepy for this. So, the females using penis-like structure to penetrate males and basically suck sperm out of them? Also, nice clickbait.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

i thought this was obvious 🤔