GREEN PORNO ANGLERFISH

 












Imagine my delight at finding another fantastically bizarre and accurate sci-porn video starring the unabashed Isabella Rossellini. It's about the mating habits of anglerfish!

SEX WITHOUT A BACKBONE

This is so fantastically, deliciously weird. Plus it's Isabella Rossellini playing a kinky gastropod. Fantasy symbioses with science.

There's a quiz connected to the video on the Sundance Channel website. Including a photograph of Isabella in a barnacle costume. No kidding. 

RANDOM EXCERPT FROM "DEEP BLUE HOME:" THE TRUTH ABOUT BARNACLES

"Not only are barnacles hermaphrodites, with two sets of genitalia, they are also in possession of the longest penis in relation to body size of any animal on Earth, up to eight times their body length. When the mood is right and the waters begin to warm the tiny creatures snake their appendages out their doors to fertilize the eggs of their neighbors. The favor is reciprocated by the same neighbor, by a different one, or by many. Barnacles living alone fertilize themselves."

DEEP BLUE HOME

Chapter 8

The Unreefed World

Photo by Christopher Neufeld at LiveScience