Images: World's Oldest Petrified Sperm

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 18:20 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Petrified giant sperm found in small 16-million-year-old organisms called ostracods are the oldest sperm preserved in rock. In many cases, the sperm are longer than the body size of the organisms that created them.

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