Scientists just found a 50-million-year-old fossilized bug penis. That's huge. And also very small.

A new paper published in the Journal of Paleontology, titled "A new remarkably preserved fossil assassin bug (Insecta, Heteroptera, Reduviidae) from the Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado" contains a lil' surprise below the bug belt. As Haaretz reports:

Looking at the photograph, one's eyes are drawn to the dark figure-8 seemingly attached to the insect's middle leg but that's not the lad's gonads, it's a beetle.