Cynthia Graber
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 9 Jun
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He thought maybe the lobster had a hidden telescopic penis that would just pop out from its hiding place when necessary.
That wasn't true.
Finally, in the eighteen nineties, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins started work.
Worrying about this problem of lobster anatomy.
Francis Herrick was his name.
He actually started by looking for the lobster vagina, which also no one had been able to discover before.
Francis found two little pouches on the female lobster, like little fanny packs, and he thought, well, people got it wrong because they were looking for just one penis, but actually maybe the lobster has two.
And he did in fact find these two hard things that look like little legs on the males, but they didn't have tubes for sperm.
These two little hard things, they're more like mini louges.
The lobster sends its sperm packet sailing down them and into the female's waiting receptacle.
Two penises might make it seem like these huge belligerent males are really dominant when it comes to sex.
The lobster sex.
That's kind of standard, not super out there, but what leads up to it?
Well, let's just say that scientists first got that all wrong because of their own gender stereotypes.
Now in some ways the stereotypes do hold up.
There is such a thing as an alpha lobster.
The biggest and the strongest.
So the females have to figure out what to do.
They know who's strong and who has good genes.
They want those genes, but that big alpha lobster is not interested in fooling around.
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