A PREHISTORIC PET FISH

 

An international team of researchers says a fish called Microbrachius dicki is the first-known animal to stop reproducing by spawning and instead mate by having sex.

The primitive bony fish, which was about 8cm long, lived in ancient lakes about 385 million years ago in what is now Scotland.

The research is published in the journal Nature.

 

 

 

 

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Young King Tut had a pet fish

That lived in a town called Kish.

The fish's name was Dicki

And he was mighty picky

About what VICTUALS he ate

AND WITH WHOM to propagate.