A man sorts through fossilised tree sap from Kachin State at a stall in Bangkok on May 31, 2018. (AFP)
A man sorts through fossilised tree sap from Kachin State at a stall in Bangkok on May 31, 2018. (AFP)

Scientists find world’s oldest sperm in Myanmar amber

Paleontologists have discovered what they believe is the world’s oldest animal sperm, frozen inside a blob of tree resin in Myanmar 100 million years ago.

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