Remains of embryos entombed in their fish mothers' wombs for 380 million years have been found in fossils from an ancient rock outcrop in Western Australia. The finding is a big deal because it suggests that sex goes way back.
The prehistoric fish, called placoderms, are found at the base of the vertebrate evolutionary tree (in a large group we humans also belong to), so it now looks like sexual intercourse, and the mating behaviors that go along with it, were more widespread in these ancient animals than previously thought, said the scientists who made the discovery.
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I wonder if the fish knew what they were doing when they first crossed this evolutionary milestone. Maybe it was all just an accident? 
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Looks like it much have been a rough first date.
That’s kind of what I was thinking.