California beach awash with penises which also happen to be fish

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What got me was the particular “science” writing in the Bay Nature piece about the phallic critters :

Odd Stuff (Part 1)

Naked Lunch? [inkeeper_in_hand] “When the tide is in, the worm slides up to the chimney of its burrow and exudes a sticky mucous net from a ring of glands… these mucous nets, looking like decaying jellyfish, draped around the burrow entrance. The worm continues to secrete as it slips lower into the burrow, generating a slime-net that stretches from the chimney to the worm’s mouth. Using contractions … the worm sucks plankton, bacteria, and other bits into this net. …the worm slurps it all back…

I mean, damn.