Unexpected! Thank you for your research :)
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SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 1 month agoI 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
xantoxis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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
dalekcaan@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Still, older than balls