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The sperm of the male diving beetle is seriously strange: Instead of swimming in the female reproductive tract on their own, individual sperm cells often stick together in pairs, in clusters and even in long chains of hundreds or thousands.
Beetle Sperm Teams Up To Navigate Females' Bodies | Diving Beetle Reproduction | Evolution of Sperm & Reproductive Tract | LiveScience
Seeded on Tue Feb 7, 2012 3:16 AM EST
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Interesting evolutionary tactic! Who'd have thought it when we all tend to think "first one in gets all the goodies!"
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