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  • 2018-09-09 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Growers in Colorado Crossbreed Marijuana with a Venus Flytrap? (en)
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  • A video purportedly showing a strange new plant created by crossbreeding marijuana with a Venus flytrap has racked up millions of views since it was first posted to the internet in 2016: However, rather than the results of crossbreeding marijuana with a Venus flytrap, what this video actually shows is a plain old barnacle caught off the coast of California. This footage was originally posted to Facebook by Matthew Wallace in August 2016 with the caption: I would have kept it if we had a saltwater tank. When Wallace shared a second video of this odd-looking object, he posed the question: Are these barnacles?: The clip went viral and was eventually licensed by Cater News and shared to YouTube with a little backstory about what it depicted. The news agency reported that the unidentified 'alien' barnacle was caught in a crab net off of Port Hueneme Pier near Oxnard, California: Although Cater News presented this barnacle as something unidentified and alien, it's likely a Megabalanus californicus, or a California barnacle. Marine biologist Alex Warneke talked to Earth Touch News when the video first went viral in 2016 and confirmed that description: The alien barnacle seen here also resembles Megabalanus californicus as featured in two videos by biologist Denis King: (en)
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