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Virginal shrimp not so chaste after all?

Microscopic creatures may have been having secret sex for millions of years.

Imagine going more than 200 million years without sex. That's what zoologists thought had happened to a microscopic shrimp-like animal called Vestalenula. But now it seems that the crafty creatures might have been at it all along.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on March 27, 2006 10:58 AM |

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