Organism Survives 100 Million Years Without Sex

Organism Survives 100 Million Years Without Sex 343

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 22, 2007 @12:56AM from the they-must-play-dungeons-and-dragons-too dept.

zyl0x writes "The Times has an interesting article online on the discovery of a 100-million-year-old micro-organism which has survived its entire lifespan without sex." From the article "A tiny creature that has not had sex for 100 million years has overturned the theory that animals need to mate to create variety. Analysis of the jaw shapes of bdelloid rotifers, combined with genetic data, revealed that the animals have diversified under pressure of natural selection. Researchers say that their study "refutes the idea that sex is necessary for diversification into evolutionary species".

Organism Survives 100 Million Years Without Sex

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Nothing to see here... (Score:5, Funny)

by Veroxii ( 51114 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @12:57AM (#18439503)

This happens on Slashdot all the time.

Move along...

Welcome to slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

by Harmonious Botch ( 921977 ) * writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @12:58AM (#18439507) Homepage Journal

It should be right at home here.

Scientific name (Score:2, Funny)

by sunderland56 ( 621843 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @12:58AM (#18439517)

Scientists have named this new species Republicanus Typicalus.

Let me guess... (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @01:00AM (#18439523)

...it's married.

Finally, my 15 minutes of fame (Score:4, Funny)

by Swave An deBwoner ( 907414 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @01:00AM (#18439527)

It is gratifying to see an article about me, but why did they add in the irrelevant stuff about bdelloid rotifers?

Blue Balliticus (Score:5, Funny)

by madhatter256 ( 443326 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @01:02AM (#18439539)

Is that what you would name this micro-organism?

Perhaps It Is Married - Would Explain Everything (Score:3, Funny)

by littlewink ( 996298 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @01:02AM (#18439543)

While 100 million years seems like a long time, perhaps it is married and has a wife. That would explain everything.

Is it only me... (Score:5, Funny)

by bky1701 ( 979071 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @01:05AM (#18439559) Homepage

...who read this as a single organism living for 100 million years without having sex? First part said "wow", second part made me feel like I had been out-geeked...

Obligatory Joke (Score:4, Funny)

by Telephone Sanitizer ( 989116 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @01:06AM (#18439561)

From the look of those mandibles, it's the foreplay that kills 'em.

Nerd trifecta (Score:5, Funny)

by Hal_Porter ( 817932 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @01:09AM (#18439601)

Front page stories

* Dungeons & Dragons and IT
* Organism Survives 100 Million Years Without Sex
* Gifted Children Find Heavy Metal Comforting

Did anyone see suck's parody of slashdot?

http://www.suck.com/daily/99/12/13/daily.html [suck.com]

Doesn't seem so funny now, does it?

Blisters (Score:4, Funny)

by Himring ( 646324 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @01:12AM (#18439615) Homepage Journal

Of course, it had one hellashish case of masterbation blisters....

Orgasm vs. Organism (Score:5, Funny)

by Fastball ( 91927 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @01:12AM (#18439617) Journal

Did anyone else read that headline as "Orgasm Survives 100 Million Years Without Sex?" That'd be a pretty impressive feat!

Re:About time they got around to this study! (Score:5, Funny)

by mollog ( 841386 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @01:16AM (#18439641)

Maybe it only seems like 100 million years. Either way, I can sympathize. I, too, tell myself that I have evolved.

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @01:25AM (#18439693)

Which moron modded this a troll? It's an attempt at humor. ( Ok, maybe not the most succesful attempt, but we all bomb now and then ) Lighten up guys. Have a splif. Go get laid....ohhh, now I get it, it a troll because you haven't gotten laid in years. Never mind.

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

by yintercept ( 517362 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @01:29AM (#18439713) Homepage Journal

"It should be right at home here."

The article says that all of the bdelloid rotifers are females.

Your point is refuted.

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:4, Funny)

by iamacat ( 583406 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @01:33AM (#18439731)

Hey, shower in prison doesn't count.

Yeah... (Score:4, Funny)

by FigTree ( 1076935 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @01:35AM (#18439743)

...but they're all female.

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

by AbRASiON ( 589899 ) * writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @01:49AM (#18439811) Journal

Yeah I used to think how awesome it is to not be one of those lonely slashdot guys who has a redundant penis.

Then I hit the 3'rd year of being with my girlfriend, anyone want a redundant penis?

Trust me (Score:5, Funny)

by edwardpickman ( 965122 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @01:50AM (#18439823)

it just seemed like a 100 million years.

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:2, Funny)

by neonmonk ( 467567 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @01:51AM (#18439829)

Me thinks the person who boasts sexual conquests protesteth too much.

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:2, Funny)

by CouteauTM ( 985458 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @02:03AM (#18439881)

laid .... off?

About the title... (Score:5, Funny)

by oOo Shiva oOo ( 582339 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @02:07AM (#18439893)

I would have found "Organism Survives Without Orgasm" at least a hundred times more entertaining :)

Indeed (Score:5, Funny)

by Goldberg's Pants ( 139800 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @02:44AM (#18440027) Journal

Sounds a lot like my marriage...

And I for one.. (Score:3, Funny)

by Plutonite ( 999141 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @02:50AM (#18440063)

welcome our abstinent 100-million year old micro-organic losers *cough* overlords.

Re:Slashdotters (Score:5, Funny)

by Rimbo ( 139781 ) writes: <rimbosity@sbcgDE ... net minus distro> on Thursday March 22, 2007 @02:54AM (#18440083) Homepage Journal

Well, clearly sex isn't the only way to achieve diversification.

It's just more fun that way.

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @02:56AM (#18440087)

Am I the only slashdotter who gets laid on a regular basis?
When we talk about sex, we mean with another person, sparky. Your hand doesn't count.

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

by UncleTogie ( 1004853 ) * writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @03:04AM (#18440127) Homepage Journal

The optimal situation is to get the sex and not have the girlfriend.

I wouldn't call masturbation optimal...

Re:Nerd trifecta (Score:5, Funny)

by Deathbane27 ( 884594 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @03:13AM (#18440163)

That's not a very good parody of Slashdot. There's no dupe on the front page!

Re:About the title... (Score:5, Funny)

by Fordiman ( 689627 ) writes: <fordiman @ g m a i l . com> on Thursday March 22, 2007 @03:21AM (#18440193) Homepage Journal

Funny, I initially read it as 'Orgasm Survives 100 Million Years Without Sex'.

Re:Nothing to see here... (Score:2, Funny)

by nytes ( 231372 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @03:34AM (#18440249) Homepage

I'd like to welcome our sexless over...

Wait a minute!

I mean - I'd like to welcome our fellow slashdotters. (Or is it that you're simply married? Wow, I thought 25 years was a long time.)

Living Louse (Score:5, Funny)

by malia8888 ( 646496 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @03:41AM (#18440277)

Two sister species were found to be living together on the body of a water louse. One of them specialised in living around the louse's legs and the other stayed close to the chest.
And I thought I had a crappy dorm room.

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @03:52AM (#18440335)

Then you're doing it wrong.

(Sorry, can't give any advice, I've probably forgotten how to do it as I've spent the last ~decade living with with a female with a much higher libedo.)

I have a feeling... (Score:2, Funny)

by had3z ( 1064548 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @04:25AM (#18440469) Homepage

that this will be the longest thread on slashdot. Ever.

Re:Yeah... (Score:5, Funny)

by rhyder128k ( 1051042 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @04:25AM (#18440473) Homepage

Females that haven't had sex in millions of years. I moving there. I could get laid.

Re:About the title... (Score:5, Funny)

by bytesex ( 112972 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @04:30AM (#18440489) Homepage

Dunno.. maybe it helped if you were a little bit more specific ?

Re:About the title... (Score:5, Funny)

by pipatron ( 966506 ) writes: <pipatron@gmail.com> on Thursday March 22, 2007 @04:34AM (#18440511) Homepage

would it help if I mentioned that I'm a girl?

Well, then we would at least know for sure you're lying.

Re:Nothing to see here... (Score:5, Funny)

by dryekindrew ( 1002653 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @04:52AM (#18440585)

I wonder how low this organism's slashdot id is.

Re:Yeah... (Score:5, Funny)

by theshowmecanuck ( 703852 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @05:33AM (#18440753) Journal

That's not what your girlfriend says. :-D

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

by Alioth ( 221270 ) writes: <no@spam> on Thursday March 22, 2007 @05:59AM (#18440877) Journal

Sex is like bridge. You don't need a partner if you have a good hand.

Re:Yeah... (Score:3, Funny)

by Walt Dismal ( 534799 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @06:52AM (#18441087)

No sex for a long time? This organism is also known by the Latin name scientists gave it, Alidium Bundyus.

Re:Yeah... (Score:2, Funny)

by rhyder128k ( 1051042 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @07:44AM (#18441293) Homepage

They're MILF organisms too? Stoppit, you're killing me. Sounds like I've got some sex lined up involving a petri dish. And not for the first time. Damn FBI sex crimes division! But that's story for another time...

Re:so what? (Score:3, Funny)

by shadowcabbit ( 466253 ) * writes: <cx.thefurryone@net> on Thursday March 22, 2007 @08:17AM (#18441471) Journal

I actually don't see what the big f**king deal is.

Actually, you've about nailed it. No fucking is apparently a big deal.

Re:Nothing to see here... (Score:5, Funny)

by dosquatch ( 924618 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @09:01AM (#18441783) Journal

My wife is eight months pregnant, so I can relate to this organism.

Wait... you've gone a hundred million years without sex, and your wife is preggers?
I'd stop trusting the UPS guy if I were you.

Bio Class Mistake (Score:5, Funny)

by zpeterz63 ( 851922 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @09:03AM (#18441813)

It's a bad idea to read "organism" as "orgasm" when you're reading out loud for a class.

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

by raddan ( 519638 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @09:36AM (#18442205)

Redundant penis? Is that like a penis array? A Redundant Array of Inexpensive Penises? Wait... that doesn't sound right...

Re:Yeah... (Score:2, Funny)

by Stele ( 9443 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @10:26AM (#18442881) Homepage

It doesn't matter when it's Arcturian, baby!

The greying of slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

by spun ( 1352 ) writes: <loverevolutionary@@@yahoo...com> on Thursday March 22, 2007 @11:13AM (#18443617) Journal

There's no denying it. We're getting older. There are now more jokes about wives not having sex than there are about parent's basements.

Re:About the title... (Score:4, Funny)

by ckaminski ( 82854 ) writes: <slashdot-nospam.darthcoder@com> on Thursday March 22, 2007 @11:17AM (#18443677) Homepage

because the female orgasm is a myth...

Re:Yeah... (Score:3, Funny)

by theshowmecanuck ( 703852 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @11:23AM (#18443783) Journal

Now you have to work 'hump' into this.

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:2, Funny)

by billcopc ( 196330 ) writes: <vrillco@yahoo.com> on Thursday March 22, 2007 @11:50AM (#18444225) Homepage

you shouldn't go into a sexual relationship with the expectations that movies and TV give us

I'm a porn star, you insensitive clod!

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:4, Funny)

by wizzahd ( 995765 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @11:52AM (#18444251)

A Redundant Array of Inexpensive Penises
That's Slashdot for you..

Re:The greying of slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

by rubycodez ( 864176 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @12:22PM (#18444679)

and the spammers know it too. No more 'hot young co-eds crave your spunk' and 'naughty schoolgirls need your discipline', but "horny housewives need satisfaction" and "needy mature office ladies", plus medication adverts for all manner of ailments of the aging. The median age for geeks is on the rise!

Re:About the title... (Score:3, Funny)

by anethema ( 99553 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @09:41PM (#18453183) Homepage

I'm sure there are many hideous female trolls who frequent slashdot, but the attractive female slashdotter may well be a myth! Then again, I've seen some of the uggos that I see many comments on here 'shes hot!' just because shes a ugly chick programmer or scientist.

Personality matters guys but remember you have to have sex with this girl, and most people cant fantasize about her using beakers and pipettes to get off!

Burn on, karma...

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:3, Funny)

by anethema ( 99553 ) writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @09:49PM (#18453231) Homepage

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Penises, or RAIP is something often encountered in the prison showers...

Re:About the title... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday March 22, 2007 @11:09PM (#18453979)

If a bear shits in the woods, and there's nobody there to hear it, does it make a sound ?
A deaf bear, you mean?

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Nothing to see here... (Score:5, Funny)

Welcome to slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

Scientific name (Score:2, Funny)

Let me guess... (Score:4, Funny)

Finally, my 15 minutes of fame (Score:4, Funny)

Blue Balliticus (Score:5, Funny)

Perhaps It Is Married - Would Explain Everything (Score:3, Funny)

Is it only me... (Score:5, Funny)

Obligatory Joke (Score:4, Funny)

Nerd trifecta (Score:5, Funny)

Blisters (Score:4, Funny)

Orgasm vs. Organism (Score:5, Funny)

Re:About time they got around to this study! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:4, Funny)

Yeah... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

Trust me (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:2, Funny)

About the title... (Score:5, Funny)

Indeed (Score:5, Funny)

And I for one.. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Slashdotters (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:Nerd trifecta (Score:5, Funny)

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Living Louse (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:1, Funny)

I have a feeling... (Score:2, Funny)

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Re:Nothing to see here... (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:so what? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Nothing to see here... (Score:5, Funny)

Bio Class Mistake (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Yeah... (Score:2, Funny)

The greying of slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:Yeah... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Welcome to slashdot (Score:4, Funny)

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