The immobile crustacean is a parasite to the mobile crustacean!
Comment on I mean honestly im shocked
gustofwind@lemmy.world 1 week agoEven barnacles get worse
Friendlybirdseggs@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
prettybunnys@piefed.social 1 week ago
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
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Hey babe, new Last of Us dropped.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 week ago
Life never stops amazing me, even if some things come out of the mind of a author of b-horror movie scripts.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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 and 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.
Photonic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit