this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2025
16 points (56.7% liked)

science

15123 readers
580 users here now

A community to post scientific articles, news, and civil discussion.

rule #1: be kind

<--- rules currently under construction, see current pinned post.

2024-11-11

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 19 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 12 points 13 hours ago

The site looks artificially sloppy and a clone of https://bioengineer.org/female-penis-evolution/

The paper is over a decade old.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 64 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

The title and image of the article are definitely clickbait. It's like saying "women are evolving penises", but the article is about goddamn flies.

Here's what they look like

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago
[–] notabot@lemm.ee 4 points 14 hours ago

Good grief! You can't just go posting that sort of thing in public, at least tag it NSFW.

Now please excuse me while I go and clutch my pearls in horror.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 35 points 18 hours ago

This better win some clickbait award.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 59 points 21 hours ago

The less popular sequel to dance dance revolution

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 33 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Man, I just woke up. That title is not something I was prepared to be hit in the face with.

[–] PepikHipik@lemy.lol 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Man, I just woke up. That title is not something I was prepared to be hit in the face with.

:))))))

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 20 hours ago

Time for a nutritional meal

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Hey, you’re finally awake!

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 2 points 13 hours ago

I'm too sleepy for this. So, the females using penis-like structure to penetrate males and basically suck sperm out of them? Also, nice clickbait.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 11 points 20 hours ago

…further emphasizing the critical role of seminal gifts in their reproductive strategy.

There is a joke that can be made from this for sure.

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Well that was quite the read.

Essentially, these female cave flies are a real life succubus.

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago
[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 6 points 19 hours ago

Science people trollin'

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Fascinating article and goes to show quite how many ways evolution can solve the same problem.

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 10 points 20 hours ago

Sooner or later, all our genitals will evolve into crabs

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago

i thought this was obvious 🤔