[JoeProBono]

Each of the giant sperm cells (left) of seed shrimp (right) can reach up to ten times the body length of the animal. The supersize sperm is an adaptation stretching back at least a hundred million years, a June 2009 study says.

Giant sperm. View in Google

[SkyPilot]

I hope this will be peer reviewed.

[Loyalist]

The seedy side of marine life!

[Daffynition]

[CharlesWayneCT]

This is so much like Global warming it’s scary. If they find a “big sperm”, it shows an “evolutionary advantage”. But humans have smaller sperm, and somehow we are at the top of the evolutionary ladder, so I guess having smaller sperm is better.

Or maybe it just USED to be that big sperm were good, and now smaller is better.

[Just another Joe]

Yeh, well, a giant sperm is all fine and dandy but what happens if the giant sperm is somehow intercepted between the male and the female?

We humans have LOTS of tiny sperms. If one doens't get through, another will.

HAH! Take that seed shrimp!

[RichInOC]

“¿Quien es mas macho?”

[SunkenCiv]

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