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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 67 points 2 months 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 2 months ago
[–] notabot@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

The less popular sequel to dance dance revolution

[–] A_Wild_Alt_Appears@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 2 months ago

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

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

This better win some clickbait award.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

Time for a nutritional meal

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey, you’re finally awake!

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 12 points 2 months ago

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

The paper is over a decade old.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months 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 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well that was quite the read.

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

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago

Science people trollin'

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

Sooner or later, all our genitals will evolve into crabs

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 2 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

i thought this was obvious 🤔