Fossilized Pregnant Fish: Origin Of Sex? – Scientists have discovered a fossilized pregnant fish that they believe is one of the first animals to have sex. Ya gotta love a news story like that:
A pregnant fossil fish at the Natural History Museum in London has shed light on the possible origin of sex, according to a study published today in the journal Nature by an international team including Museum scientists.
The fossil is an adult placoderm, an extinct group of armoured fish, and it contains a 5cm-long embryo.
It is dated to the Upper Devonian period 350 million years ago and was found in the Gogo formation of western Australia.
So for those keeping count, that’s 349,994,000 years before the existence of the entire universe, according to Young Earth Creationists.
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