Confounding more than a century of received wisdom about crustacean sex, genetic tests show that at least one kind of barnacle can transfer sperm without making direct contact via their famously extendable parts.
Among a dense crowd of Pollicipes polymerus gooseneck barnacles, scientists found one leaking sperm (center).
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