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minus-square𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49·edit-24 months 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 but not as old as fuck
minus-squarexantoxis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoUnexpected! Thank you for your research :)
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agohuh. how did animals get rid of waste before that? did they explode?
minus-square𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-24 months agoI 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. We’re talking wayyyy before complex organisms existed
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 but not as old as fuck
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.
We’re talking wayyyy before complex organisms existed