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The weirdest creatures to wash ashore | Live Science

In 2019, a California beach became the scene of a mass penis fish beaching. The 10-inch-long (25 centimeter), plump and pink marine worm is also known as a fat innkeeper worm (Urechis caupo). The worm’s phallic shape is perfect for a life of building burrows in the intertidal zone and catching food with a coughed-up mucus net. 

Biologists suspected the beaching was the result of a storm. Strong wind and waves can shift huge amounts of sand, breaking burrows open and flinging their unsuspecting residents onto the beach. 

via www.livescience.com

This is really weird and I had no idea the Penis Fish even existed. One more reason to get circumcised IMO.