Scientists find world’s oldest sperm in Myanmar amber – Macau Business

A team of paleontologists have discovered what they believe is the world’s oldest animal sperm, frozen inside a tiny crustacean in a blob of tree resin in Myanmar 100 million years ago.
The oldest known examples of fossilised animal sperm were previously a mere 17 million years old, according to the team of experts led by Wang He of the Chinese Academy of Science in Nanjing.
The sperms were found inside an ostracod, a kind of crustacean that has existed for 500 million years and can be found i…

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