Ann Jones
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And in that literal human body temperature bath lived a tiny little... I found a tiny thing.
With a big thing attached.
which belongs to a group called the ostracods and they've been around for hundreds of millions of years and they're sometimes called seed shrimp imagine a little clam shell sort of like a pippi something like that but tiny a millimeter across and inside it is a minuscule little shrimpy thing it has antenna and some little leggy appendages and it can swim
They are one of the most common arthropods in the fossil record.
But the one David found was special.
Well, not the world's first penis, but the world's first dick pic.
And it was on a clam lookalike.
Monumental stuff.
Now, what would you call such a thing?
Anthony Weiner?
No, the researchers named the species Collimbosathon eclecticus, which translates roughly as amazing swimmer with large penis.
And what does it look like, the penis itself?
I have never seen one before.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Now, wait a second.
Is the female the same size?
Because what is a one millimetre female going to do with a 10 millimetre sperm?
What does she do with it?