This ancient bony fish was a sexual pioneer
An artist's interpretation of the sexy Scottish square dance (full video below). (Flinders University Via Youtube (Embedded Below)/) For February, we’re focusing on the body parts that shape us, oxygenate us, and power us as we take long walks on the beach. Bony bonafide bones. These skeletal building blocks inspire curiosity and spark fear in different folks—we hope our stories, covering everything from surgeries and supplements to good old-fashioned boning, will only do the first. Once you’ve thoroughly blasted your mind with bone facts, check out our previous themed months: muscle and fat.Humans may have perfected sex (or at least made the most earnest efforts to try), but we definitely didn’t invent it. So who did? Sexual reproduction is around 2 billion years old, but the way bacteria swap genes isn’t really what we mean when we talk about the birds and the bees, and ancient red algae that relied on...