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  • Why Do Tiny Fruit Flies Have Giant Sperm?

    Why Do Tiny Fruit Flies Have Giant Sperm?

    Fruit flies have enormous sperm. This is a well known fact in the scientific community — so well known, in fact, that there’s a name for it: the big sperm paradox. But the massive, spermy problem has long confounded scientists, who couldn’t figure out why such a tiny creature needed such humongous baby batter soldiers.…