Posted on 02/25/2009 1:55:22 PM PST by NormsRevenge
BANGKOK, Thailand – The fossilized remains of two pregnant fish indicate that sex as we know it — fertilization of eggs inside a female — took place as much as 30 million years earlier than previously thought, researchers said Thursday.
Scientists from Australia and Britain studying 380 million-year-old fossils of the armored placoderm fish, or Incisoscutum richiei, said they were initially confused when they realized that the two fish were carrying embryos. They originally thought the fish laid their eggs before fertilization.
"Once we found embryos in this group, we knew they had internal fertilization. But how the hell are they doing it?" said John Long, the head of sciences at the Museum Victoria in Melbourne who wrote a paper on the discovery that appeared in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.
The answer came when the scientists re-examined the pelvis of the male placoderm, armed with the new information about fertilization.
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Does Michelle know?
But I thought the Earth was only 6000 years old.
Huh.
original article at Nature.com
Fossils reveal early evidence for penetrative sex
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090225/full/news.2009.122.html
I think there was a similar 'revelation' some months back
But did they have fishy porn to stimulate their economy?
What about the homosexual fish? WHAT ABOUT THEIR RIGHTS?!
“....Study of fossils shows prehistoric fish had sex...”
Duh! Well of course they did. We still have fish don’t we?
I really can't bring myself to think about Helen Thomas' sex life!
Yeh. That's when I last had sex, too.
???
Helen Thomas is proof that even a coliform can get laid.
Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it.
380 million year old fish dicks?
Yes, there was a pretty good chance they had sex, simply because they are still around today. Let me guess; Does the genius who wrote this belong to Chairman MAObama’s cabinet?
Science knows how life began but doesn’t know WHEN life begins. Just a clump of cells until it is “born” when a doctor says that it is “birth” and not just live delivery of a clump of cells.
Any relation to Nicole Richie?
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