The spermatophores attach themselves to a female's eggs when squids reproduce, and scientists have observed them causing pain by doing the same thing to the human mouth when eaten raw, according to a 2012 report in journal Zoomorphology. Similar cases have been documented in the past, however, and it is possible for squid's spermatophores to attach themselves to a body independently. 'Nobody ever got pregnant from eating squid, or from any other contact with squid, and furthermore, it is not possible to become pregnant from eating squid, or from any other contact with squid.' 'There was no impregnation, no pregnancy, and no baby squid. Website Science 2.0 weighed in on the debate days after the bizarre tale surfaced and wrote: '"Impregnate"means that successful fertilization has already taken place: sperm met with egg and an embryo is developing. That did not happen.'īecause the squid sperm needs the egg of a female to fertilise and grow into baby squids, no impregnation took place during the encounter. Website Science 2.0 said: '"Impregnate" means that successful fertilization has already taken place: sperm met with egg and an embryo is developing. She complained of pain afterwards and, when she went to hospital, medics discovered she had spermatophobes – packages of sperm – attached to the inside of her mouth. She bit into the sperm bag of the parboiled squid – which had not been completely gutted – while eating it, and spat out what was in her mouth. Instead, experts say her mouth was technically inseminated – sperm were released into it. The sperm need the egg of a female squid to fertilise before any baby squid are able to grow, and there was no egg in the woman's mouth. HERE'S WHY THE WOMAN WAS NEVER 'PREGNANT WITH BABY SQUIDS'Īlthough scientists confirmed the 63-year-old South Korean woman had the squid's sperm stuck to the inside of her mouth, she was never 'pregnant'. The sperm of a Japanese flying squid, or Todarodes pacificusy, had fixed to her mouth as they would to the inside of a mate. The journal authors wrote: 'On the basis of their morphology and the presence of the sperm bag, the foreign bodies were identified as squid spermatophores.' Scientists confirmed what she had eaten was squid spermatophores – packages of sperm from inside the animals sperm bag. These small bumps have since been incorrectly referred to as 'squid babies' by some media outlets, Snopes clarified.
Fury as health watchdogs deny 7,000 prostate cancer patients a life-extending drug that doubles their survival chances because it is not deemed 'value for money'.More than 20 people go blind a month in the UK due to delayed and cancelled hospital appointments, damning report by MPs finds.Sleep, exercise and 25ml of wine each day can help the brain to 'wash' itself and wipe away toxic proteins linked to Alzheimer's, scientists claim.Truck driver, 27, who was left paralyzed after his truck flipped, rolled and ejected him is training to walk again using a robotic exoskeleton.Medics removed 12 'small, white spindle-shaped, bug-like organisms' that were stuck to her tongue, cheek and gums when she was taken to hospital complaining of pain. She then spat out what she was eating but said she could feel something 'pricking' in her mouth, according to the report in the Journal of Parasitology. The woman, who has not been named, was eating the parboiled dead squid when she felt a sharp stinging pain in her mouth. The squid the woman was eating had not been gutted properly before she ate it and she ended up biting into its 'sperm bag' which released sperm into her mouth The woman did, however, have squid sperm stuck in her mouth because the animal had not been properly gutted before it was served.
Doctors in South Korea originally explained how they found '12 small, white spindle-shaped, bug-like organisms' embedded in her tongue.īut journalists have confused insemination with impregnation - when successful fertilisation has already taken place, according to fact-checking website Snopes.
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