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Earliest combatants in sexual contests revealed
Earliest combatants in sexual contests revealed
(New Scientist: 28-May-05)
Horny male trilobites may have been fighting it out over the females hundreds of millions of years ago, making them the earliest combatants known to take part in such sexual contests.
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