Dec 5, 2020
Fruit fly (Drosophila bifurca)
Photo by Scott Pitnick
Fun fact: Fruit flies of the species D. bifurcata have the longest sperm cells of any organism on Earth at a whopping 6 cm (2.4 in) in length!!
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