Comment on Old AF
xantoxis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What about “old as shit”? I bet that’s a lot older
I was thinking the same, so I looked into it!
The oldest creature in the evolutionary chain that has been found to poop (from what I found online) is the comb jelly fish. They are thought to have evolved somewhere between 500 million and 600 million years ago
So shit is pretty old
Still, older than balls
Unexpected! Thank you for your research :)
huh. how did animals get rid of waste before that? did they explode?
I think they were just multicellular organisms that got rid of the shit by diffusion from the cells themselves, without a specific path for the shit to go down like a butthole
SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was thinking the same, so I looked into it!
The oldest creature in the evolutionary chain that has been found to poop (from what I found online) is the comb jelly fish. They are thought to have evolved somewhere between 500 million and 600 million years ago
So shit is pretty old
dalekcaan@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Still, older than balls
xantoxis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Unexpected! Thank you for your research :)
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
huh. how did animals get rid of waste before that? did they explode?
SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think they were just multicellular organisms that got rid of the shit by diffusion from the cells themselves, without a specific path for the shit to go down like a butthole