Where does a 60-foot sperm swim?

Any place it wants, of course.

This is old news, but I couldn't resist this one, last animal story (OK, I'm lying) about the well-hung ostracod. Scientists found the fossil of the oldest known penis —preserved erect and ready for action —on a 100 million year old ostracod. And when I say this ostracod was well-hung, I am talking about how its penis was a full one-third of its 1 mm body length. (If NBA star Yao Ming is 7 feet, 5 inches tall, then… you do the math.) The scientists say that the ostracod needed this relatively massive penis to deliver its sperm which, at 10 times the ostracod's body length, is among the largest sperm ever made by an creature.

Sperm 10 times my height? Yikes! I'm glad I'm me. I'm glad I'm me.

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