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Ancient armoured fish first creatures to have sex

Postby yoda you can call me » Oct 21st, '14, 21:51

Two armoured fish dwelling in a Scottish lake were the first creatures to have sex, around 385 million years ago.

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And forget missionary – this ancient couple copulated side-by-side, ensuring that the male could manoeuvre his large genitalia into just the right position.

Scientists have traced the history of vertebrate sexual intercourse back to a species of fish known as Microbrachius dicki. Microbrachius means “little arms” and refers to the genital limbs that locked male and female fish together when mating. And dicki means – that’s right, you guessed it.

The three-inch long placoderm (a prehistoric fish) is an early ancestor of humans that lived millions of years before fins evolved into legs.

A study of the creatures' fossils showed that in order to transfer sperm, males had grooved L-shaped claspers which were held in place by small paired bones on the female.

Lead scientist Professor John Long, from Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, said: “Microbrachius means little arms but scientists have been baffled for centuries by what these bony paired arms were actually there for.

"We've solved this great mystery because they were there for mating, so that the male could position his claspers into the female genital area."

He added that the act of copulation was carried out sideways. "This enabled the males to manoeuvre their genital organs into the right position for mating,“ he said.

"With their arms interlocked, these fish looked more like they are square dancing the do-se-do rather than mating."

The discovery, published in the Nature journal implies that external fertilisation evolved from internal fertilisation involving sexual intercourse, and not the other way around. Most present-day bony fishes fertilise eggs outside their bodies.

The findings also highlight the importance of placoderms in vertebrate evolution.

Professor Lang said: “Placoderms were once thought to be a dead-end group with no live relatives, but recent studies show that our own evolution is deeply rooted in placoderms, and that many of the features we have, such as jaws, teeth and paired limbs, first originated with this group of fishes.

“Now, we reveal they gave us the intimate act of sexual intercourse as well.”



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Re: Ancient armoured fish first creatures to have sex

Postby Rafael » Oct 21st, '14, 22:12

Maybe that's why some pussy smells like fish. :-k
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Re: Ancient armoured fish first creatures to have sex

Postby TonyTilt » Oct 24th, '14, 14:51

Rafael wrote:Maybe that's why some pussy smells like fish. :-k


I don't think THAT'S why, but not a bad idea?!
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Postby DetroitSkills » Oct 24th, '14, 18:32

Rafael wrote:Maybe that's why some pussy smells like fish. :-k
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