Paleobotanist discovers world's oldest sperm sample in Antarctic

Benjamin Bomfleur can’t help but laugh a little when talking about this latest, record-setting discovery.

“A 50-million-year-old worm sperm from Antarctica?” he said between chuckles. “Who would have thought that’s possible?”

And yet, what Bomfleur, of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and other researchers stumbled upon was a serious discovery: the oldest animal sperm ever found...