Why male fruit flies have such enormous sperm
Friday, May 27, 2016 - 08:31
in Biology & Nature
Don't underestimate the manliness of the humble fruit fly: He may be small, but his sperm is not. In fact, the sperm of the fruit fly Drosophila bifurca can stretch up to nearly 6 centimeters in length. That's several times the length of the male fruit fly himself, and about 1,000 times the length...