BBC: Researchers have discovered the earliest known ancestor of humans – along with a vast range of other species.
They say that fossilised traces of the 540-million-year-old creature are “exquisitely well preserved”.
Hmm…
The microscopic sea animal is the earliest known step on the evolutionary path that led to fish and – eventually – to humans.
Details of the discovery from central China appear in Nature journal.
The research team says that Saccorhytus is the most primitive example of a category of animals called “deuterostomes” which are common ancestors of a broad range of species, including vertebrates (backboned animals).
Saccorhytus was about a millimetre in size, and is thought to have lived between grains of sand on the sea bed.
The researchers were unable to find any evidence that the animal had an anus, which suggests that it consumed food and excreted from the same orifice.
It may not have excreted at all, and so gradually grew more and more full of shit until it evolved into a Democrat.
OK I fell for it you bastard. Couldn’t help yourself, could you?
Hahaha
Probably one of the best pictures of Ruth Bader Ginsberg I have seen
Not mine.
Bella Abzug?
Helen Black?
Uncle Al wins the thread (so far, anyway).
P.S. – “Consuming food and excreting from the same orifice”. Piece of cake when you’ve had too much to drink. Could that be where the term “sh*tfaced” comes from…?
🙂
I just want to make the comment that when I searched big mouth animal on the internecks, Big Mike’s picture came up. It’s not my fault the internets are rayciss.
“They say that it probably ate by engulfing food particles, or even other creatures.”
It was 1 mm in size and ate other creatures? I think what they found was a fish turd.
“I’d hit it.”
Menderman
I was pretty sceptical when I saw that someplace else earlier today, but now that I see the comparison – they might have something.
Its dental plan must’ve been brutal.
(OT)
Oh noes!
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2119677-chimps-beat-up-murder-and-then-cannibalise-their-former-tyrant/
Poor Mooch!
Didn’t realize Steve Harvey was that old.
Holy crap, I thought it might be Larry King.
Shit, I would have guessed Madonna or Ashley Judd, until I saw the second picture.
I knew I’d seen that face before.
And here I thought we were preceded by the dudesrhomes species,
oh well…….
That ugly black man looks kinda like Mooch