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Next time you're laying in bed post-coitus, take a moment and thank Microbrachius dicki for the afterglow. What does a bony, three-inch-long fish have to do with the reverse cowgirl? Everything, considering it was, according to a study in the journal Nature, the very first animal to actually have sexual intercourse to procreate. Prior, reproduction was done via sprinkling sperm on some eggs outside the body.
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Granted, it was a little less passionate than the roll in the hay we're used to, involving the latching of "large bony claspers" onto a bony orifice at the female's backside whilst positioned side-by-side, in what lead author Professor John Long described as "square-dance style." Such was romance in Scotland 385 million years ago.
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Alas, like many trends, sex may have been a bit before its time, and thus quickly fell again out of fashion. Nowadays fish are spawning again, meaning ol' Micro dicki likely reverted to doing it old school, and it was a few million more years before doggy style became de rigueur. Don't worry, it's probably here to stay now, though.
Originally published at Esquire.
