<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d0ca2507-1aee-451f-9bca-bee8855803c4/95DB5225-463A-404C-AB41-19D4339DD528/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/25/researchers-say-fish-fossils-reveal-the-earliest-known-erection/" href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/25/researchers-say-fish-fossils-reveal-the-earliest-known-erection/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.discovermagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/25/researchers-say-fish-fossils-reveal-the-earliest-known-erection/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.discovermagazine.com/img/F30696FA-9F1C-4173-AB68-BE905ACA35D9" alt="armored fish" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/25/researchers-say-fish-fossils-reveal-the-earliest-known-erection/"><DIV id="topAreaNoBorder"><DIV id="mainTitle"> <H1 id="contentTitle"><A href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/">Blogs</A> / <A href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats">80beats</A></H1> <SPAN></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class="clearBoth"></DIV> </DIV> <DIV id="mainContentInnerNoBorder"> <DIV class="content"> <DIV class="navigation"> <DIV class="alignleft">« <A href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/25/obama-talks-up-clean-energy-while-republican-response-nettles-scientists/">Obama Talks up Clean Energy, While Republican Response Nettles Scientists</A></DIV> <DIV class="alignright"></DIV> </DIV> <DIV id="post-1830" class="weblog-entry"> <H2><A title="Permanent Link: Researchers Say Fish Fossils Reveal the Earliest Known Erection" rel="bookmark" href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/25/researchers-say-fish-fossils-reveal-the-earliest-known-erection/">Researchers Say Fish Fossils Reveal the Earliest Known Erection</A></H2></DIV></DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/25/researchers-say-fish-fossils-reveal-the-earliest-known-erection/">Prehistoric fish had <A href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/tag/sex-reproduction/">sexual</A> reproduction figured out 380 million years ago, a new fossil study has confirmed. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/25/researchers-say-fish-fossils-reveal-the-earliest-known-erection/">the fossil showed a 2-inch-long embryo within the fish’s body cavity, indicating internal fertilization</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/25/researchers-say-fish-fossils-reveal-the-earliest-known-erection/">Researchers originally thought the tiny bones within the fossil were the remains of the fish’s final meal, but they decided to reexamine</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/25/researchers-say-fish-fossils-reveal-the-earliest-known-erection/">All of these facts proved they were embryos, not prey items</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/25/researchers-say-fish-fossils-reveal-the-earliest-known-erection/"> did not have any broken or stomach-etched features</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/25/researchers-say-fish-fossils-reveal-the-earliest-known-erection/">same bone structure</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/25/researchers-say-fish-fossils-reveal-the-earliest-known-erection/">examined the pelvis of the male placoderm, they <FONT color="#1c39bb">realized the pelvis had a fin not seen on the female fish</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/25/researchers-say-fish-fossils-reveal-the-earliest-known-erection/">used to grip its mate during fertilization, much as sharks do</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/25/researchers-say-fish-fossils-reveal-the-earliest-known-erection/">These fish have an extra large bone that attaches to the pelvic bone,” [Long] said. “It had been overlooked and hadn’t been identified</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/25/researchers-say-fish-fossils-reveal-the-earliest-known-erection/">this seems to be <FONT color="#1c39bb">“the beginning of erectile male fertilisation”</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/95DB5225-463A-404C-AB41-19D4339DD528/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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