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Researchers from Australia and the UK have taken a look back over the fossil records of placoderms - an early type of armoured fish - and come up with a startling suggestion: some of the earliest male genital organs known to palaeontology started out as a kind of “legs”. Well, not quite legs, since placoderms were aquatic: …

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  1. Hero Protagonist

    Expressions

    Nice that the male and female apparently achieved a simultaneous "O" face, if the picture is to be believed.

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  2. Mark 85

    Oh my.. think of the children

    Placoderm porn!!!! What next? The Trilobite Tango???

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Bony fish

    Since they say the line died out, I assume this is an example of parallel evolution, so to speak.

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    1. Gazman
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      Re: Bony fish

      Boner fish, surely?

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  4. ecofeco Silver badge
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    I dunno

    It seems, well, kinda fishy to me.

    That's mine with tackle in the pocket. Has anyone seen my hat?--------------------------------------->

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  5. Jess

    parallel evolution

    Since no modern amphibians have wedding tackle*, either;

    1] this must be parallel evolution

    2] reptiles didn't evolve from amphibians, but legs came about by parallel evolution

    or

    3] the ancestors of current amphibians evolved away the wedding tackle.

    * (sorry Miss Piggy)

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    1. S4qFBxkFFg
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      Re: parallel evolution

      I wouldn't worry; Miss Piggy is probably adequately serv(ic)ed by Kermit in other ways:

      https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=frog+tongue&tbm=isch

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    2. Fair Dinkum
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      Re: parallel evolution

      If memory serves me right, modern sharks have. Been a few decades since I read about that though.

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  6. Geoff Campbell Silver badge
    Childcatcher

    It's the detail of that copulation that the researchers....have drilled into.

    Oh, I say! Well played, Sir, well played!

    GJC

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  7. Cliff

    Page 3 for geeks?

    Must admit I don't usually think of this site for sexy-time titillation over my muesli, but there in full colour...

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  8. Natalie Gritpants

    Looks like fun

    Must see if I can get a pair of placoderm suits for the weekend

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  9. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    "Hey sweetheart, I want to try something new, all you have to do is lie on your back"

    "No, you're not putting that in there!"

    "Oh go on, millions of years from now, everybody will be doing it"

    "Everyone?"

    "Well, except for canis lupus familiaris, but they've not been invented yet"

    Paris, because you have to ask?

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  10. Phil O'Sophical Silver badge
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    I suppose that might explain...

    ...the attraction of shark fin soup?

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  11. Neil Barnes Silver badge

    I hate to think

    where the lasers have to be installed.

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  12. Christoph

    This story will run and run

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  13. phuzz Silver badge
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    Where's the NSFW tag eh?

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  14. Graham Marsden
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    So...

    ... it's a proto-shark with proto-fricken' lasers?

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  15. 2460 Something

    Just when you think they couldn't come up with anything crazier to waste their time researching ....

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