"Utterly delighted" by his new 2-inch Phallus


	"Utterly delighted" by his new 2-inch Phallus

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6-17-2009 2:43 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7503a2d2-f929-40a1-be63-109ad90c0ac1/45D7DF65-C356-48FD-8FE6-3E9F8B9437CF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=penis-shaped-mushroom-named-after-s-2009-06-15" href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=penis-shaped-mushroom-named-after-s-2009-06-15" style="font-size: 11px;">www.scientificamerican.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=penis-shaped-mushroom-named-after-s-2009-06-15"><DIV><IMG width="300" height="261" align="left" alt="" src="http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/inline/blog/Image/mushroomphallusdrewesii.jpg" />Herpetologist Robert Drewes will forever be remembered for his two-inch <EM>Phallus</EM>.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=penis-shaped-mushroom-named-after-s-2009-06-15"><DIV>
In the upcoming issue of the journal <EM>Mycologia</EM>, scientists describe a new species of stinkhorn fungus from Africa, which they christened <EM>Phallus drewesii</EM> in honor of their <A href="http://www.calacademy.org/science/heroes/rdrewes/">expedition leader</A>.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=penis-shaped-mushroom-named-after-s-2009-06-15"><DIV>
“I am utterly delighted,” Drewes told the <EM><A href="http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12572413?source=most_emailed">San Jose Mercury News</A></EM>, “The funny thing is that it is the second smallest known mushroom in this genus and it grows sideways, almost limp.”</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=penis-shaped-mushroom-named-after-s-2009-06-15"><DIV>
As the California Academy of Sciences’ curator of herpetology, Drewes has spent his career wrangling snakes and chasing after frogs. Since 2001, he has been leading scientific expeditions to the sparsely populated islands of <A href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/TP.html">Sâo Tomé and Príncipe</A> off the coast of West Africa, home to hundreds of plant and animal species found nowhere else on earth.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=penis-shaped-mushroom-named-after-s-2009-06-15">
“None of my colleagues . . . will let me live it down,” Drewes told the newspaper, “But I love it.  It is a form of immortality.”</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/45D7DF65-C356-48FD-8FE6-3E9F8B9437CF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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