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Scientists find world’s oldest sperm in Myanmar amber

By Abiodun Ogundairo
22 September 2020   |   7:00 am
A team of paleontologists have discovered what they believe is the world's oldest animal sperm, frozen inside a tiny crustacean in a blob of tree resin in Myanmar 100 million years ago.

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