First! This may be the first erect penis on record.

What would it feel like if you found an erect penis from 99 million years ago? Well, that is exactly what a group of researchers working in Myanmar must be feeling after discovering what is probably the oldest erect preserved penis in the world, or at least so far recorded in history.

The male sex member belongs to a type of opilion, a species of arachnid that has a few millimeters and long legs. Upon finding the fossilized specimen, the scientists found that there was something more to it than its simple prominent paws. They soon realized that this was the saying whose in a revealing discovery.

Science knows little about the animal in question, and this fossil may contribute to further study of the species and its penis. The types of animals closest to these are scorpions and spiders, but they do not have any extra limbs and perform fertilization through modified paws. This caused the discovered species to be classified into a unique family of arachnids called Halitherses grimaldii .

According to a Gizmodo publication, all of these animals have been around for over 400 million years and researchers have a hard time distinguishing them. However, by observing the penis and its shape, with the heart shaped head and twisted tip, it was possible to see the difference of this penis to other species.

The researchers stressed the importance of the discovery. "This is the first record of a male copulating organ preserved in amber (semitransparent fossil resin) and is even more important by the time it was formed, " the scientists said in a study published by the journal Science of Nature .

The question that everybody wants to hear

Anyway, there is still a mystery that causes doubt in scientists and will probably never be solved. The question is: how did the animal end up fossilized with the rigid limb? There are two hypotheses that seek to explain this unusual fact.

The first is that the animal, which died in a clear state of excitement and was certainly on the outskirts of a female, fell into the resin just as the limb was erect. Yet another line of thought suggests that, amid its “daily activities, ” the animal became involved in tree resin, and as it struggled to detach itself, blood pressure increased and forced the limb out accidentally, keeping it erect. .

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