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This image provided Romano Dallai, Italian National Academy of Entomology shows a scanning electron micrograph image of a fruit fly sperm, which when unraveled reaches about 2.3 inches long, 1,100 times bigger than human sperm. New research shows that the female fruit fly drove the evolutionary process that made the speck of a bug have sperm that is 23 times longer than its body. (Romano Dallai, Italian National Academy of Entomology via AP)
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