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Sad, Sabre-Toothed Sperm

Naked mole rats are just a metaphor warehouse, aren't they?

Sometimes evolution fucks up and skips over natural selection, allowing bad traits to persevere. Such is the case of the naked mole rat, e.g. the “sabre-toothed sausage.” Poor little fellas can’t feel pain on their skin, regulate their body temperatures well, see anything, and they’re, well, naked. The one thing they have is the ability to move forward and backwards, which is handy when you live in dark, smelly tunnels. A new paper out in the BMC Evolutionary Biology journal blames the naked mole rat’s sperm, which is apparently the worst sperm on Earth.

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