Genitals

As quixotic quests go, it’s a doozy: take 96 hours of raw footage filmed during one of the craziest and most tumultuous shoots in movie history and attempt to create a new version of the film described by Variety on release in 1979 as “a moral Holocaust”.Step forward Thomas Negovan: the man who rescued Caligula. “There were definitely a lot of points in the last three years where I thought I was crazy,” he says. “I thought: ‘Is anyone going to care about this?’” But, in fact one of the most important entities in the…

A species of wasp that lives in Japan seems to have developed a rather unconventional method for warding off attacks.Researchers observed the male of the mason wasp species Anterhynchium gibbifrons using spikes that flank the penis as a weapon – with varying effectiveness – against hungry frogs that think the insect might make a tasty snack."This study," write ecologists Shinji Sugiura and Misaki Tsujii of Kobe University in Japan, "highlights the importance of male genitalia as an anti-predator defense and provides a…