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Scientists Find First Animal That Had Sex
Fox ^ | Feb 25, 2009

Posted on 02/25/2009 2:37:11 PM PST by RDTF

Remains of embryos entombed in their fish mothers' wombs for 380 million years have been found in fossils from an ancient rock outcrop in Western Australia. The finding is a big deal because it suggests that sex goes way back.

The prehistoric fish, called placoderms, are found at the base of the vertebrate evolutionary tree (in a large group we humans also belong to), so it now looks like sexual intercourse, and the mating behaviors that go along with it, were more widespread in these ancient animals than previously thought, said the scientists who made the discovery.

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; junkscience; oldearthspeculation; tasteslikechicken
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1 posted on 02/25/2009 2:37:11 PM PST by RDTF
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


2 posted on 02/25/2009 2:37:25 PM PST by RDTF ("I'm pretty sure this is a 2 man job once the shooting starts")
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To: RDTF

NO H. Thomas pics allowed...LOL


3 posted on 02/25/2009 2:38:01 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (A democrat will break your leg, then hand you a crutch and take credit for your being able to walk.)
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To: RDTF

If it was the first animal, what did it have sex with :)


4 posted on 02/25/2009 2:38:07 PM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: RDTF

I don’t believe it. Baby boomers invented sex and rock and roll sometime in the 1960s.


5 posted on 02/25/2009 2:38:16 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Do you know the website number?" - VP Joe Biden)
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To: RDTF

I think that is why sex is a “primal urge”.


6 posted on 02/25/2009 2:38:19 PM PST by txnativegop (God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

A vegetable or mineral.


7 posted on 02/25/2009 2:38:40 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Do you know the website number?" - VP Joe Biden)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
If it was the first animal, what did it have sex with :)

NO HELEN THOMAS PICS!!!!!!!!!!!111111one

8 posted on 02/25/2009 2:38:50 PM PST by JRios1968 (The real first rule of Fight Club: Do not invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

With sexy swinging wild and crazy lady fishes.


9 posted on 02/25/2009 2:39:56 PM PST by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: Quagmire

For some reason, I thought you should be pinged.


10 posted on 02/25/2009 2:40:30 PM PST by mnehring
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To: JRios1968

11 posted on 02/25/2009 2:41:52 PM PST by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: RDTF

Okay, where’s the Helen Thomas photo?


12 posted on 02/25/2009 2:42:35 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: RDTF

13 posted on 02/25/2009 2:44:03 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: RDTF

interesting.

I wonder what was the first animal to get drunk before sex?


14 posted on 02/25/2009 2:44:11 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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15 posted on 02/25/2009 2:44:32 PM PST by Reaganesque
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To: Mojave

Another patron of fish porn no doubt.


16 posted on 02/25/2009 2:47:39 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: RDTF
And later drowned while trying to smoke a cigarette... ..
17 posted on 02/25/2009 2:57:47 PM PST by Jagman (POTUS Interruptus: The natural way to prevent unwanted stimulus packages!)
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To: RDTF

Go back far enough and we’ll find the Big Bang was some kind of a Divine Orgasm.


18 posted on 02/25/2009 3:03:05 PM PST by swarthyguy ("We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds," ISI Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha)
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To: Reaganesque

The last men who visited Amazonia died of crushed pelvises! Death by snu-snu!


19 posted on 02/25/2009 3:06:02 PM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: RDTF

“more widespread in these ancient animals than previously thought”


...by these MORONS. Talk about a classic example of...

The tongue of the wise makes knowledge acceptable,
But the mouth of fools spouts folly.
Proverbs 15:2

Even a fool when he holds his peace is considered wise;
when he closes his lips he is esteemed a man of understanding.
Proverbs 17:28


20 posted on 02/25/2009 3:11:16 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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