Fruit fly’s giant sperm is quite an exaggeration
Tail on the gamete can measure about 20 times the male’s body length
![fruit fly and sperm](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/052416_sm_fruitfly-main.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
EXTREME SPERM The most oversized male sexual feature yet documented may be a fruit fly’s giant sperm (right, one sperm at 200 times magnification from Drosophila bifurca; left, same magnification of male surrounded by a male reproductive tract).
S. Lüpold et al/Nature 2016