stackyFACTSWhen you glue yourself head-first to a rock for your entire adult life, dating becomes logistically difficult.
When you glue yourself head-first to a rock for your entire adult life, dating becomes logistically difficult. To overcome their permanent immobility, male barnacles evolved a prehensile reproductive organ that can magically uncoil and reach up to eight times their entire body length. They simply extend it blindly through the crashing ocean waves to hopefully tag any nearby neighbors, proving that nature always finds a highly disturbing way.
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