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Oldest animal sperm discovered in 100-million-year-old amber
CNN ^
 | Updated 7:15 AM ET, Thu September 17, 2020
 | By Amy Woodyatt, CNN  
Posted on 09/18/2020 5:08:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
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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.
 
To: SunkenCiv
    PinGGG?.............................
 
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posted on 
09/18/2020 5:09:20 AM PDT
by 
Red Badger
(Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
 
To: Red Badger
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posted on 
09/18/2020 5:13:02 AM PDT
by 
JerseyDvl
("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
 
To: JerseyDvl
    Bill Clinton relieved, he was afraid his ex-mistress had squealed.
 
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posted on 
09/18/2020 5:14:54 AM PDT
by 
Fai Mao
(There is no justice until The PIAPS is legally executed)
 
To: Red Badger; Fred Nerks
    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!
 
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posted on 
09/18/2020 5:19:55 AM PDT
by 
Candor7
((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
 
To: Candor7
    Amber alert! Call an amber lamps!
 
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posted on 
09/18/2020 6:06:02 AM PDT
by 
null and void
(It WON'T be a Biden presidency, the Dems do NOT need him. They just need the office. ~ Blueflag)
 
To: Red Badger
    There’s something about Mary...
 
To: Red Badger
    Isn’t Amber a little old to be slutting around like that?
 
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posted on 
09/18/2020 6:10:39 AM PDT
by 
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
 
To: Red Badger
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posted on 
09/18/2020 6:12:52 AM PDT
by 
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
 
To: dfwgator
    This is a perfect situation to test the evolution theory.
Do a DNA analysis of this and compare it to modern day descendants’ DNA....................
 
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posted on 
09/18/2020 6:20:27 AM PDT
by 
Red Badger
(Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
 
To: dfwgator
    "This female must have mated shortly before being encased in the resin," He Wang, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Nanjing, said in a statement.
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posted on 
09/18/2020 6:22:00 AM PDT
by 
Red Badger
(Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
 
To: Candor7
    I question the dating of the amber.
 
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posted on 
09/18/2020 3:56:20 PM PDT
by 
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum!)
 
To: Fred Nerks
    100 million years is a horribly long time ago.
I wonder whether there was sap (amber) that long ago.
 
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posted on 
09/19/2020 2:23:48 AM PDT
by 
Candor7
((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
 
To: Candor7
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posted on 
09/19/2020 4:18:58 PM PDT
by 
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum!)
 
To: Red Badger
    ANOTHER Joe Biden thread???!!
 
To: Fred Nerks
    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 ?
 
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posted on 
09/20/2020 5:01:04 AM PDT
by 
Candor7
((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
 
To: Candor7
    Superheated, silicone-laden water. Turned the trees into 'glass'. 

...deformed the Bristlecones 
itok=H0USq6bH
 
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posted on 
09/20/2020 4:06:54 PM PDT
by 
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum!)
 
To: Candor7
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posted on 
09/20/2020 4:22:36 PM PDT
by 
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum!)
 
To: Red Badger
    And she told me she wasn’t a day over 99,999,999 years.
 
To: Fred Nerks
    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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posted on 
09/20/2020 4:59:27 PM PDT
by 
Candor7
((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
 
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