CRUSTACEAN COPULATION

June 18, 2009 at 9:08 pm

The Eye seems to have taken a decidedly fishy turn today and I seek to compound it even further by revealing that a new method for analysing the interior of fossils has shown that millimetre-long mussel-like crustaceans called ostracods used giant sperm to mate. Sperm of modern ostracods can reach 10 times their body length. Thank god for evolution is all I can say…..!