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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe Science Group is discussing four-headed penises.
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Slackers.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)bluedigger
(17,086 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)As a little baby, nothing's cuter!
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rug
(82,333 posts)Be precise. We're discussing science here.
Did you check it's penis?
rug
(82,333 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)That's only because he's a cottontail. We took him in because he had NO common sense at all and wasn't afraid of anything. His mother tried to kill him (bite we had to tend to) and the vet confirmed that he had a penis and two vaginas (one on either side). He just turned six on Wednesday and he's still a major cuddle.
Note: If you're law enforcement, fuck off. I'm not giving up the rabbit.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)The little guy is smiling.
trof
(54,256 posts)I dunno...I just dunno.
I may have to go read in Science more often.
rug
(82,333 posts)'Tis a dark day, indeed, when the Science people kick our asses.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)Maybe the Science people are trying to copy us.
The Lounge has more power then we think.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)texanwitch
(18,705 posts)We are the place to be.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)turtlerescue1
(1,013 posts)MiddleFingerMom
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)hay rick
(7,606 posts)Ptah
(33,024 posts)Fossils in flagrante delicto: Turtles' sex act frozen in time
Scientists say it's first known case of vertebrates seen copulating in the fossil record
These fossils represent one of nine mating pairs of the extinct turtle Allaeochelys crassesculpta found at the Messel Pit fossil site in Germany. The male (to the right) is about 20 percent smaller than the female.
Charles Choi
Contributor
updated 6/19/2012 11:16:27 PM ET
Fossil turtles have been caught having sex, the first known case of animals with backbones found copulating in the fossil record, researchers say.
The mating turtles may have been caught in a death trap as they sank to deeper layers of the lake, where they were having sex nearly 50 million years ago, the researchers speculate. The lake's deep layers may have held deadly volcanic gases or other toxins.
Scientists made their discovery at the Messel Pit in Germany, which once was a deep volcanic crater lake in a wet, tropical environment. The pit was a quarry originally mined for the oil in the shale there, but over the years, it has become the richest site in the world for understanding the living environment of the Eocene, the epoch between 57 million and 36 million years ago when mammals began conquering the planet. Animals there included early horses, reptiles, primates, honeybees, giant ants and countless birds and bats.
Caught in the act
Researchers focused on 47-million-year-old specimens of an extinct turtle (Allaeochelys crassesculpta) found at the pit. These were rather small turtles, about 20 centimeters (8 inches) long.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47884202/ns/technology_and_science-science/
50,000,000 year old eptilian sex. Eat it, Science!
trof
(54,256 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)Oh, you never get invited to their parties??? Oops, never mind.
nolabear
(41,959 posts)some fellas have enough trouble aiming just the one.
He sure looks proud of it, though.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)This is why the internet was invented.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)Interesting animals.