For #12 of our online assignment, I chose this particular article; Poynter Online - Writing Tools. In it, the writer has this quote from Olivia Judson from her article "Super Sex Me" which I got a kick out of, so I thought I would share.
"'Perhaps my all-time favorite organism is Bonellia viridis, the green spoon worm. The female lives in crevices on the sea floor. She's a sedentary lady: She doesn't roam in search of adventure; she doesn't go out in search of food. Rather, she spends her life in one spot, gathering her meals by snuffling around her neighborhood with her long, extensible proboscis.
'Her mate is minuscule: The green spoon worm has one of the most extreme size differences known to exist between male and female, the male being 200,000 times smaller than his mate. Her lifespan is a couple of years. His is only a couple of months – and he spends his short life inside her reproductive tract, regurgitating sperm through his mouth to fertilize her eggs. More ignominious still, when he was first discovered, he was thought to be a nasty parasitic infestation.'"
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