The most precious and rare marine life in the wild

In the fascinating natural world, there are many unusual creatures with unusual formations, including a sea snail and a rare fish with the most bizarre genitals in the wild.

Discover the most bizarre marine snail species in nature

A species of sea snail that has a very ' mating ' style : Injecting the penis into the partner's forehead. This is considered a strange creature with up to 2 sexual organs. Siphotperon sp.1 is a small sea slug found off the northeastern coast of Australia. This is a bisexual animal so the body carries both male and female genitalia.

The sea snail has two "quarters", one used to contain sperm, the other acts as a needle to pump a liquid prostate hormone called allohormone into the partner's genitalia.

Sea snail - strange creature has 2 'precious'

According to reports of scientists recently published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B on November 12, mating time of sea slugs is about 40 minutes. After injecting sperm into their partners, they continue to pump hormones into each other's circulatory system.

Another strange creature, the Cuulong Phallostethus fish in Vietnam has gonads on its head. P. cuulong belongs to the Priapiumfish group - a little-known fish that lives in Asia (especially Southeast Asia), whose genitalia is located under the chin, just behind the mouth, named after the fertility god. of ancient Greece, Priapus.

In July 2009, Koichi Shibukawa - an expert working at the Nagao Nature Environment Fund in Tokyo, Japan, discovered a strange fish swimming alone in a canal near the Mekong (Vietnam) area. Working with colleagues at Can Tho University, he realized it was a completely new species.

Strange creatures - fish species with gonads above their heads in Vietnam

Priapiumfish male has no penis like humans and many other mammals. Instead, they have a single reproductive organ called a priapium, which lies backwards. It looks like another type of pectoral fins. In addition, the oviduct of the female Priapiumfish tends to be filled with sperm in the body and therefore, the percentage of fertilized eggs is quite high.

Although no one has witnessed the process of mating of P. cuulong so far, the conclusions are still based on observations from many other similar species.Scientists are still unable to find out why Priapiumfish has developed this extremely special gonad , said Lynne Parenti, a researcher from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.