I was not prepared to mentally handle the consequences of knowing what barnacles are
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2025
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Wait till you find out about the barnacle penis. You will still not be prepared.
Same!
Even barnacles get worse
Oh hey, another link i have mixed feeling about having ever clicked.
The females are parasites who inject themselves into a host and take over their bodies through a network of filaments, while the males are hyperparasites who inject themselves into a settled female and cease to exist as independent organisms through the degeneration of all tissues except the ones responsible for spermatogenesis.
Metal AF
Am I understanding that article right? Not only is the female a parasite on a different crustacean and loses all its libs and organs until it is just a sac with tendrils snaking through its host; but the male also attaches to the female while it's in that sac state, and also loses all its limbs and organs until it is just a set of gonads? That's the weirdest fucking lifecycle I've ever heard of.
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit
The immobile crustacean is a parasite to the mobile crustacean!
Now I need to see an immobile plant that is a parasite to a mobile plant. Triffids excluded.
Sadly I believe there are none
Hey babe, new Last of Us dropped.
Life never stops amazing me, even if some things come out of the mind of a author of b-horror movie scripts.
SHOOK
Shooken even
And cephalopods are molluscs!
"I'm not gonna be home for a while Marie"
So it too will become a crab?
It has no leg
It has no leg yet.
Correct 
They're not rocks they're minerals
Blistering barnacles!
waltuh
It's true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean?wprov=sfla1 bottom row left
i think ur just copepod
Brain fart lol