• Question: how big is a sperm cell

    Asked by path1kata on 4 Jun 2024.
    • Photo: Martin McCoustra

      Martin McCoustra answered on 4 Jun 2024:


      Have a look here… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm. It varies for species to species quite remarkably!

    • Photo: Amber Villegas - Williamson

      Amber Villegas - Williamson answered on 2 Jul 2024:


      Sperm whales are massive 🐳

      This is an amazing video

      They managed to put a camera on a sperm whale!

    • Photo: Pete Webb

      Pete Webb answered on 4 Jul 2024:


      The head of a human spermatozoon is about 3 micrometres (3 millionths of a metre) wide by 5 long, and the tail is 50 long and well less than 1 wide – pretty small!

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