User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-5460283-20130102043847/@comment-5460283-20130103213840

Let me ask you something: Have you ever seen 6-8ft long lizards have sex!?!?!? I have and it seems pretty acurate to me. So why should something a few times its size be very different? All it would take to deliver the eggs into the beard would be as simple as the female going up to the beard and using a special tube to deliver the eggs into the beard securely.

And all i said about the gill/lung thing is that i completely agree wit hthem having fully developed lungs at adulthood but at birth they have gills that would be shed at a later age.

And giving live birth in the middle of the ocean is a VERY dangerous thing to do.

1) The mother MUST stay still, which would mean shees vunerable to attack.

2) The mother is distracted giving birth.

3) The birth leaves fresh blood in the water.

4) Large and much more experienced predators would know what is going on and would try to find the perfect oportunity to attack the mother or child.

5) And if there are multiple young the mother would have to wait until after she is done giving birth to look after the young.