Fossil captures 380-million-year-old live birth
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 15:49
in Paleontology & Archaeology
She is the oldest mother of any species ever found, a 380-million-year-old fish immortalised in a fossil while still attached to her offspring by an umbilical cord.
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