Elderly South Korean woman unexpectedly sodomized by her calamari dinner.

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17. sort of related story....

Many species of male squid and octopi use a modified tentacle to transfer spermatophores to females, placing them inside the female mantle cavity where they attach to the inside wall and later release sperm, more or less as the article describes. The modified tentacle is called a hectocotylus. Sometimes the tip of the hectocotylus breaks off inside the female mantle cavity, and since it's mollusc muscle tissue for the most part, it can live for some time as a tiny, wiggly little thing.

It was first discovered like that by Georges Cuvier, actually-- as a small, wiggly little apparent parasite inhabiting the mantle cavities of occasional squid and octopus, so it was excitedly identified as a new-to-science parasitic worm and given the genus name Hectocotylus. When cephalopod research revealed Hectocotylus to be part of the reproductive arm of male cephalopods, the reproductive arm was named for the worm, which never actually existed, hence it is called a hectocotylus.