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The Beginning of Sexual Reproduction
This is the oldest evidence of fish with a complex form of sexual reproduction. The males were depositing sperm inside the females. This was the first evidence of it in the entire fossil record. And we realized that this was an early evolutionary specialisation of giving birth to live young. Think of coral today on the Great Barrier Reef and they shed their sperm into the water under the full moon. Yes, massive reproduction of it.