Hermaphrocrab!
 

Freaky, a crab that's literally half male and half female.

http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/4616610/detail.html

Oh my! Interesting link...

Yeesh!

Well I guess that's cool and all, but it ain't no two faced cat.

crab ~ wow!

cat ~ :eek:

I think Moonliner is busy trying to one-up my husband. :p

That crab thing is odd, but that cat looks like a nightmare come to life. :eek:

I'm really not spending any time at all on that.

I can't remember if I was in the Louvre or Versailles at the time, but I was somewhere in a room of life-sized and larger-than-life-sized Greek statuary and had this nagging feeling that something wasn't quite right. Somewhere in France is a whole room of hermaphoditic scuplture.

Here's one in Rome and another in the Louvre.

This nicely compliments the Times article I was reading yesterday about gender and the brain.

"True, gender identity in the marine world isn't as simple as it is with humans. Some fish change gender during their lives. But this crab was probably half male, half female from the point of conception, according to Al Place, a geneticist with the University of Maryland's Center of Marine Biotechnology."

As simple? Hmm, methinks this is just furthre proof that gender isn't really simple period. This kind of split does, I believe, exist in the human species, though it's not as obvious to spot as a red and blue claw.

Love this kind of stuff.

Thanks, GD.

Both stories were intriguing and creepy, but the pic of the cat/s wins for sheer gross-outedness.