You might have heard of vagina dentata — the mythical "toothed vagina" born of male paranoia. But have you heard of the carnivorous penis-shaped worm known as Ottoia prolifica? This 505-million-year-old phallus-like creature actually had a throat full of teeth.
Now, scientists who took a close look at the teeth of fossilized penis worms (or priapulids) have discovered a new species.
Paleontologist Charles Walcott first discovered O. prolifica in 1911 in the Burgess Shale, a geologic formation in the Canadian Rockies that contains fossils of bizarre critters, such as trilobites and velvet worms, from the middle Cambrian period.-READ MORE -http://www.livescience.com/50748-cambrian-penis-worm-discovered.html
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