The bundle of giant sperm was found in the storage organ of a female crustacean encased in amber.
Ostracod crustaceans were entrapped in this tiny piece of Cretaceous amber found in Myanmar.
Posted on 09/18/2020 5:08:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
Scientists have found the oldest sample of animal sperm, concealed in a 100 million-year-old piece of amber. Paleontologists discovered the sample in the reproductive tract of an ancient female crustacean encased in resin -- one of several samples of ostracods from Myanmar. The previously unknown species of crustacean, now named Myanmarcypris hui, resembles a modern day mussel and is an example of an ostracod. Ostracods are small animals that date back some 500 million years, and can still be found in oceans, freshwater lakes and rivers.
Using 3D X-ray reconstructive technology, scientists analyzed several ostracod specimens, studying their limbs and reproductive organs. Experts discovered ripe sperm inside the sperm receptacles of a female crustacean, who would have stored the sperm for release once her eggs had matured had she not been encased in the sticky tree resin.
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The bundle of giant sperm was found in the storage organ of a female crustacean encased in amber.
Ostracod crustaceans were entrapped in this tiny piece of Cretaceous amber found in Myanmar.
PinGGG?.............................
Amazing scientific find.
Bill Clinton relieved, he was afraid his ex-mistress had squealed.
100 million years?
When the ancient sperm is released with a modern crustacean
that will end a very lengthy delayed organasm.
Under Ankh-Morpork, the Great Turtle Atun will be pleased.
Amber alert!
Call an amber lamps!
There’s something about Mary...
Isn’t Amber a little old to be slutting around like that?
This is a perfect situation to test the evolution theory.
Do a DNA analysis of this and compare it to modern day descendants’ DNA....................
I question the dating of the amber.
100 million years is a horribly long time ago.
I wonder whether there was sap (amber) that long ago.
Conifers
https://www.forestryengland.uk/conifers
The question has to be, what was the force which ‘squeezed’ the sap from the trees in liquid form which instantly entrapped living creatures...?
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ANOTHER Joe Biden thread???!!
The question has to be, what was the force which ‘squeezed’ the sap from the trees in liquid form which instantly entrapped living creatures...?>>>>>>>>>>>>
Hurricanes, wind storms, lightning ?
...deformed the Bristlecones
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And she told me she wasn’t a day over 99,999,999 years.
And extracted millions of gallons of vitrified amber in vortex discharge in water full of crustaceans.
I’d say thats a “go.”
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