Unfortunately for him, the 19th century discoverer, Robert Dick, did not live to see the 2013 discovery of his namesake’s sexual dimorphism (presumably because no imprints of soft tissue had been found back then).
Microbrachius means “little arms” and refers to the genital limbs that locked male and female fish together when mating. And dicki means – that’s right, you guessed it.
Hey uhmm, what are these?
Roommates.
Good friends even!
I mean look at them.
Microbrachius dicki
Wow, it’s not a joke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbrachius
With picture : https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/ancient-armoured-fish-first-creatures-to-have-sex-9805387.html
Unfortunately for him, the 19th century discoverer, Robert Dick, did not live to see the 2013 discovery of his namesake’s sexual dimorphism (presumably because no imprints of soft tissue had been found back then).
The article:
The wiki:
Turns out I didn’t guess it after all.