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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(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
“I’m a dorkfish! He caught me on’a corndawg! I was swimmin’ in th’ocean, and I saw that corndawg and said “Whatsa corndawg doing in th’ocean?!”
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Thanks RDTF. Didn't I learn about this in scho- uh, forget it. [for the second time this week, a recycled joke is sent to the corner] |
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INTREP - No way to prove that...more “just-so” stories
aw, dang...
Study of fossils shows prehistoric fish had sex
AP on Yahoo | 2/25/09 | Michael Casey - ap
Posted on 02/25/2009 1:55:22 PM PST by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2193999/posts
Something about this seems bass ackwards.
See #11
I thought they said no H.T. pics.
Great—Barbara Walters is going to interview herself.....
This new find suggests an early victory of prawn over brain.
My husband could qualify for both......Only kidding :O)
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