World's Oldest Petrified Sperm Found - and It's Huge!

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 20:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The oldest petrified sperm ever discovered is gargantuan, at least for a gamete.The sperm comes from the early Miocene epoch, between about 23 million and 16 million years ago, and belonged to a tiny crustacean called a seed shrimp or ostracod.

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