Knitted Ood Face Mask with External Brain

How does a fish die and become fossilized in the act of giving birth?

How does a fish die and become fossilized in the act of giving birth?

[from page 2 of the article] "The fish and its unborn offspring probably fell victim to rapid depletion of oxygen in the water, settling to the bottom of the sea where they were gently covered in layers of silt-like mud that hardened over time, according to the scientists."

Maybe it's our great grandpa.

Birth is fun to say in a creepy voice

Mmm... paleolithic internal fertilization gets me all worked up.

attenboroughi?
hah.

And how would oxygen be depleted THAT quickly... almost a split second? It would be gradual... surely the fish wouldn't still be attached to its mother...

That's what I thought... there's lots of reasons for a fish to die. There could have been some illness or trauma that caused the umbilical cord to not detach, which also caused death, or something could have gone wrong with the birth process. Maybe she was old. Who knows?

Some fish give live birth today. Guppies, Swordtails, Molly, and Platties.

Since they only guess at the age, we can only laugh at their guess.