World’s oldest penis: 425-million-year-old crab fossil reveals ancient sex secrets

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World’s oldest penis: 425-million-year-old crab fossil reveals ancient sex secrets
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The oldest penis on record belongs to a 1-millimeter-long, 425-million-year-old crustacean known as an ostracod.

The oldest penis in the world, as it turns out, belongs to an ancient crustacean astonishingly well-preserved in volcanic ash 425 million years ago that might anatomically teach us that sex and breathing are pretty closely related.

When Professor Siveter discovered it on a rock in 2003, the ash had saved the animal’s hard and soft tissue from disintegration or decay making the specimen “an exceptional preservation,” according to Professor Siveter inpacked a big surprise. Not only did he discover an impossibly intact and ancient fossil but a penis, a rare feature as soft tissue, which ended up being quite large, up to a third of the animal’s total volume, according to“This fossil had all the appendages intact.

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