KILL IT of the day
KILL IT of the day
Out of context: Reply #155
- Started
- Last post
- 382 Responses
- scarabin0
SACCULINA
"Sacculina is technically a type of barnacle, a crustacean just like its crab hosts, but it was at one time mistaken for a fungus. The female begins her life in a microscopic, shrimplike swimming stage, but will discard more than 90% of her body when she locates a crab, reducing down to a blob of raw cells which grow “roots” throughout the host and eventually create a small opening for the male sacculina to enter and mate with her. If the host crab is a female, it gets tricked by the parasite into carrying, nurturing and spreading larval Sacculina as if they were its own little crablings...and even if the host crab is male, Sacculina transforms its body and mind to function just like a female anyway."
- I just stumbled this an hour ago..
Fuck parasites!!YearzOne
- I just stumbled this an hour ago..