Australian scientists discover oldest live birth

Submitted by Waspie Dwarf: Scientists in Australia reported Thursday they had discovered the remains of the oldest vertebrate mother ever found. The fossilized 375-million-year-old placoderm fish, preserved with an embryo still attached with an umbilical cord, was found in the Gogo area of northwest Australia.

 The fossil fish is the oldest-known example of a mother giving birth to live young, and pushes back the emergence of this reproductive technique by some 200 million years.

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I take it that it's too late to start shouting 'push push!'.

Oh yeah! I saw this in a magazine months ago, I can't believe the mommy-fish and the baby-fish both got fossilized with umbilical cord intact! I don't understand how Fishes and Reptiles and Birds are Oviparous while us Mammals are Viviparous... there's a big gap between that fish and us, I wonder what causes it... oh and Modern fish fertilize their eggs outside of the female...