Materpiscis - the worlds oldest Mum

[ozraptor4]

From the 375 million year old Gogo Formation comes the worlds oldest hard evidence for live-birth and internal fertilization (ie. real sex). The specimen - a pregnant placoderm fish with an embryo inside complete with permineralised umbilical cord (and possibly even the yolk sac). It also provided the opportunity for my second painting to be

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[tcpip]

Nice picture!

[finback]

More to back up the chondrichthyian connection, I think.