Nature

Male anglerfish fuse to females and share their blood forever

In several deep-sea anglerfish species, a tiny male bites onto a female and enzymes fuse their skin and blood vessels into one shared circulatory system. He then loses his eyes, fins, and most organs except his testes, living out his life as a permanent, parasitic sperm supply fed entirely by her bloodstream.

Theodore W. Pietsch, Dimorphism, Parasitism, and Sex Revisited: Modes of Reproduction Among Deep-Sea Ceratioid Anglerfishes — Ichthyological Research, 2005

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