Scientists believe a rope-like organism that lived on the seabed up to 570 million years ago was the first creature on earth to have sex.
Researchers studying ancient fossils think a peculiar animal called Funisia dorothea was sexually active 30 million years before any other.
They called her Fun Dorothy.
Immediately thereafter, it went blind and grew hair on its palms.
“Rope-like”.
Heh.
I guess we’re not in Kansas anymore
Was there a paleozoic Andrea Dworkin on hand to denounce this submarinal, primordial violation?
I always wondered what Andrea would’ve had to say about earthworms, who (if I’m not mistaken) can pitch and catch at the same time.
Autodenunciation, no doubt. Isn’t self-loathing the overall goal here?
I saw a video once, of these two alleged hermaphrodites…
Researchers studying ancient fossils think a peculiar animal called Funisia dorothea was sexually active 30 million years before any other.
“Reasearchers also found evidence of some closely related organisms that failed to reproduce.”
See also: Amyndae Marcottus and Barbarae Mahablob…