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Sat, 16 Jun 2012 | The Sun
Woman ‘pregnant’ with 12 baby squid A WOMAN became “pregnant” with 12 baby squid after eating calamari. The shocked 63-year-old felt a sharp pain in her mouth as she bit into a portion of whole cooked squid. She immediately spat out the sea creature — along with its internal organs — but could still feel “small, squirming organisms” in her mouth. Doctors in South Korea examined the woman and found 12 squid spermatophores attached to her tongue, cheek and gums. A “spermatophore” is a sac of semen that implants itself in the female squid before a mechanism shoots out sperm and fertilises her eggs. The case was revealed in a paper by the National Centre for Biotechnology Information in Maryland, US. The paper says: “Twelve small, white organisms stuck in the tongue, cheek and gums were removed. The foreign bodies were identified as squid spermatophores.” A similar case was reported last year after a woman ate raw seafood in Japan. |
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