12 Ridiculous-Sounding Scientific Names That Are 100% Real
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Welcome, dear reader, to a list of 12 scientific names that are 100% real, yet sound utterly ridiculous. From marine flatworms that use their penises to fight for parental roles, to a mineral named after the place it was discovered, you will be amazed at the strange and wonderful things that science has uncovered.
We invite you to join us on a journey of discovery, as we explore the weird and wonderful world of science. From two fingers in a vagina and one finger in a bum, to a word that takes three hours to say out loud, these scientific names are sure to make you laugh, gasp, and maybe even blush.
So, without further ado, let us begin our exploration of the 12 ridiculous-sounding scientific names that are 100% real. Enjoy (unless, of course, you are currently being pulled into a supermassive black hole, stretching your fragile human form into an infinitely long piece of linguini)!
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Stretched and squished.
![CRACKED SPAGHETTIFICATION It's when an object is pulled apart by the intense gravity of a black hole, stretching it out into a long, thin shape.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/7/898867.jpg)
Surprise.
![CRACKED DIGITAL PENETRATION No, it's not a euphemism for sexting. It's a term for putting your fingers into someone else's vagina or butt - just fingering, simple as that.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/4/898864.jpg)
Penis-stabbing for parental roles.
![CRACKED PENIS FENCING Marine flatworms fight each other with their penises to decide who will be the father and who will be the mother. The one who stabs the other first wins and the one who gets stabbed becomes the mother. Nature is majestic.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/6/898866.jpg)
Butt-obsessed.
![CRACKED PYGOPHILIA Nothing to do with our porcine friends, and certainly not an attraction to them. It just means being particularly into butts.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/5/898865.jpg)
Triple the fun.
![CRACKED GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA Science's official term for the western lowland gorilla. Presumably the people who named it wanted to make extra sure you knew what it was.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/6/898856.jpg)
Useless mosquitoes.
![CRACKED USELESS MOSQUITO The exact Latin term for this genus of mosquitoes is anopheles - f from the Greek words an meaning not and ophelos meaning benefit. It seems the guy who named them, back in the 1800s, wanted to call them useless.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/0/898860.jpg)
Fancy Feces?
![CRACKED TURDUS MAXIMUS Get your mind out of the sewer. This is the scientific name for the noble Tibetan Blackbird, which - we're not making this up - is part of the Turdidae family.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/8/898858.jpg)
Arnold's a spider now.
![CRACKED PREDATOROONOPS SCHWARZENEGGERI In 2012, scientists discovered 17 new species of goblin spiders in Brazil. They named one of them Predatoroonops schwarzeneggeri, and the rest after Predator characters and places.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/1/898861.jpg)
A word to the wise: Don't try it.
![CRACKED METHIONYLTHREONYLTHRE ONYLGLUTAMINYLARGINYL... ISOLEUCINE The English language has this one really long word, which has almost two hundred thousand letters and takes three hours to say out loud. It's the chemical name for titin, the largest protein discovered so far.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/9/898859.jpg)
Llama drama?
![CRACKED LAMA GLAMA No, this is not a fashion style for llamas who really like to dress up. It's just the scientific name for the ordinary, bog-standard llama.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/3/898863.jpg)
Lightning-fast measurements.
![CRACKED JIFFY A jiffy is a specific unit for a short amount of space - it's how long it takes light to travel a distance of one femtometer, or a millionth of a millionth of a millimeter. America's Favorite since 1930 JIFFY Quality and Value corn muffin mix add egg and milk](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/2/898862.jpg)
Naming it after himself wasn't an option?
![CRACKED CUMMINGTONITE Chester Dewey named a mineral found in Cummington, Massachusetts in 1824, after the place it was discovered, hence: cummingtonite.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/7/898857.jpg)