fossilesqueM to Science MemesEnglish · 1 month agoHappy Valentine's Day!imagemessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up183arrow-down15
arrow-up178arrow-down1imageHappy Valentine's Day!fossilesqueM to Science MemesEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squareLongLive@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·1 month agoPlease educate me on what this parasitic-looking-helminthe is meant to represent.
minus-squareValsalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 month agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schistosoma_mansoni
minus-squareGustephan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoOh no. No no no no no. I stopped having nightmares about this little fucker years ago. You can’t make me go back!!
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThat’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.
minus-squareLibertyLizard@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoI assume they’re fucking? But I’m not sure.
minus-squarepropter_hog@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 month agoA previous post mentioned flatworms “penis fencing” to determine who impregnates whom, so I assume this is a post-fencing copulation session.
Please educate me on what this parasitic-looking-helminthe is meant to represent.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schistosoma_mansoni
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