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Scientists Just Discovered Half-a-Billion-Year-Old Evidence of Animals Having Sex

Earthlings started getting it on even earlier than we thought!

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You must’ve been having some great sex in your life if scientists can still find fossilized evidence of it more than half a billion years later. That’s exactly what happened after researchers studying ancient fossils in Canada’s Northwest Territories uncovered the oldest known evidence of animals reproducing sexually, pushing the origins of animal sex back roughly 5 to 10 million years earlier than previously believed.

Publishing their findings in Science Advances, the researchers from the American Museum of Natural History say the........

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