symbioticHug t1_ish00vw wrote on October 15, 2022 at 10:35 PM Reply to TIL: Sperms were thought to move by wiggling their tails side-to-side, like eels, for 350 years. But research shows that they roll as they move forward like a spinning top. by vect77 TIL that this fact is dubious - the research paper this fact is based on has been retracted since May 2021: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aau9116 Permalink 277
symbioticHug t1_ish00vw wrote
Reply to TIL: Sperms were thought to move by wiggling their tails side-to-side, like eels, for 350 years. But research shows that they roll as they move forward like a spinning top. by vect77
TIL that this fact is dubious - the research paper this fact is based on has been retracted since May 2021: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aau9116