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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 67 points 1 year 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 21 points 1 year ago
[–] notabot@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The less popular sequel to dance dance revolution

LESS popular? No idea what consumers are thinking, that sounds like a banger...

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

This better win some clickbait award.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

Time for a nutritional meal

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

Hey, you’re finally awake!

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 12 points 1 year ago

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

The paper is over a decade old.

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well that was quite the read.

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

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

Science people trollin'

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Sooner or later, all our genitals will evolve into crabs

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

i thought this was obvious 🤔