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50-Million-Year-Old Sperm Found in Antarctica
Newsweek ^ | 07.15.2015 | Douglas Main

Posted on 07/15/2015 1:54:21 PM PDT by dware

Things without bones don’t fossilize that well. This includes sperm and worms, and most definitely worm sperm. But scientists have now discovered fossilized sperm from a worm-like creature in Antarctica that is 50 million years old, as revealed in a study published Wednesday in the journal Biology Letters.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: History; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: antarctic; antarctica; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; paleontology
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Where's Laz?
1 posted on 07/15/2015 1:54:21 PM PDT by dware
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To: dware

Worm Sperm? Obama was conceived at the South Pole?


2 posted on 07/15/2015 1:55:55 PM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: dware

Present.


3 posted on 07/15/2015 1:56:53 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Back in the 1970's, Iran used to call us the "Great Satan". Turns out they were right all along.)
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To: dware
They say you can't get a venereal disease from a dirty doorknob, but no one addresses what the person was doing with (to) the doorknob in the first place.

That said, what were these scientists doing in the Antarctic, that led to them finding worm sperm?

4 posted on 07/15/2015 1:58:24 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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5 posted on 07/15/2015 1:58:37 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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That said, what were these scientists doing in the Antarctic, that led to them finding worm sperm?

Let me guess, a public grant.

6 posted on 07/15/2015 1:59:29 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Well, first they discovered a 50 million year old blue dress...


7 posted on 07/15/2015 2:04:39 PM PDT by LadyBuck (KMRA)
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To: dware

Where? On a 50 million year-old blue dress?


8 posted on 07/15/2015 2:05:17 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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“Worm sign, Usul. About 500 gallons.”

“The spice is the worm. The worm is the spice.”

“Usul has called up a large one!”


9 posted on 07/15/2015 2:06:47 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Great Buckeye Minds....


10 posted on 07/15/2015 2:07:10 PM PDT by LadyBuck (KMRA)
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To: blueunicorn6

ROFL!!!


11 posted on 07/15/2015 2:09:02 PM PDT by JJ_Folderol (Diagonally parked in a parallel universe...)
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To: martin_fierro

Ping?


12 posted on 07/15/2015 2:09:13 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Cis-American)
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To: SunkenCiv

Of interest?


13 posted on 07/15/2015 2:11:08 PM PDT by dware (Yeah, so? What are we going to do about it?)
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To: JoeProBono

ok that’s gross bleahhhhhhhhhhh


14 posted on 07/15/2015 2:14:00 PM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Romans 1:18-32 ..............God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things.....)
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15 posted on 07/15/2015 2:19:01 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS,)
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Is she heading to Antarctica? Hope she has her $9 for the month.


16 posted on 07/15/2015 2:20:12 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: dware

I was thinking Hugh Hefner...........


17 posted on 07/15/2015 2:22:18 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: taterjay

It might be reasonable to say that she has no problem with fossilized sperm.


18 posted on 07/15/2015 2:23:26 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS,)
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To: Lazamataz

Lol. When I read this, first thought was, “Laz has to see this.”


19 posted on 07/15/2015 2:24:24 PM PDT by dware (Yeah, so? What are we going to do about it?)
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“Present”.

Obviously, you are “present” in a lot of places. (snort) :)


20 posted on 07/15/2015 3:26:16 PM PDT by momtothree
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