After an influx of dark and stormy weather, residents in California’s Bay Area awoke to find their local beach awash with what appeared to be hundreds and hundreds of pulsating pink p*nises.
“I had no idea what they might be… it went on for two miles,” resident David Ford said.
“I walked for another half hour and they were scattered everywhere. There were seagulls lined up the beach the whole way having eaten so much they could barely stand.”
Thousands of these marine worms, called fat innkeeper worms—or “p*nis fish”—washed up on Drake’s Beach after a recent storm.
Baffled by what he was seeing on Drake’s Beach, Ford reached out to a biologist at Bay Nature, who explained that yes, while these pink and swollen logs totally look like a bunch of d*cks, they are in fact a strange species of marine worm known as the “fat innkeeper” (Urechis caupo) – or, more colloquially, the p*nis fish.
“Yes, the physical design of the fat innkeeper worm has some explaining to do,” wrote biologist Ivan Parr on the Bay Nature website.
“But the fat innkeeper is perfectly shaped for a life spent underground.”
It just so happens that ‘perfect’ shape also looks an awful lot like the most prominent part of male external genitalia, with a pink tip and everything.
Found along the west coast of Northern America, this approximately 25 centimetre-long creature (10 inches) builds its home in sand or mud, burrowing into a nice, safe U-shaped tunnel with an entrance that looks sort of like a “chimney”.
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