physiology

Sperm from Guinness

Drosophila Bifurca: this fruit fly has entered the Guinness Book of Records for a rather unique characteristic: its spermatozoa, with the unrolled tail, measure over five centimeters in length . This characteristic ensures that the female's fertilization is assured, since the spermatozoon - about 120, 000 times longer than the human one - fully occupies the female's genital apparatus.