Live Birth Fossil pushes live birth back 200 million years than earlier thought, to 380 million years ago. The fossil is of a mother fish still attached to her young by an umbilical cord.
"It shows us that live birth was occurring at the same time as egg laying, and that these mechanisms evolved together rather than sequentially."
--Co-author Kate Trinajstic, who together with Long found the fossil.
"The discovery is certainly one of the most extraordinary fossil finds ever made, and changes our understanding of the evolution of vertebrates."
--John Long, head of science at Museum Victoria.
This is the oldest 'mother' fossil ever found, and also the oldest example of a species that engaged in penetration sex, or 'internal fertilization'.
Evolution remains vague enough to just get patched again; again it is demonstrated that evolution is not falsifiable to the majority of modern scientists.
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