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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

huh. how did animals get rid of waste before that? did they explode?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.

We're talking wayyyy before complex organisms existed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Unexpected! Thank you for your research :)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Still, older than balls