Unbelieveably huge sperm

[Brian.Pearson]

A human sperm would have to be over 17 meters long in order to measure up against one group of modern ostracods, whose sperm are up to ten times as big as the animals themselves. Roughly 34,000 of the 50 micron-long human sperm would have to line up to match the body length of a man (of 1,70m).

[harry chickpea]

Freud would have had a field day.

"What was that the just went by for the last few minutes?!?!?"

"My son to be."

"Long time coming, huh?"

"Yep."

[bluepacific]

Originally Posted by Brian.Pearson

A human sperm would have to be over 17 meters long in order to measure up against one group of modern ostracods, whose sperm are up to ten times as big as the animals themselves. Roughly 34,000 of the 50 micron-long human sperm would have to line up to match the body length of a man (of 1,70m).

I noticed there were no pictures. Here I can help out on this:



Here's a famous large sperm;



I guess size does matter!