I mean, really. No matter how you feel about the man, surely his mother is off-limits? Translated from the Latin, the full name of this species comes out to be “Attenborough’s mother fish.” Attenborough’s mother — a fish! Where I come from, them’s fightin’ words.

But the name is quite accurate. Hot takes aside, the fossil of Materpiscis attenboroughi actually turns out to contain the oldest vertebrate pregnancy we’ve ever found. It sets in stone the ancient roots of live birth, and the “m