Say hello to your little ancestor!

A new fossil discovery that represents what is possibly a ancestor (or close cousin thereof) of modern duterostomes.

As for their looks–well, let’s just hope that they had a good personality.

“Goodness, great-great-great…great-great-great-grandma! What a big mouth you have!”

From the article

Your joke goes here: __________

Since the defining character of a deuterostome is that the anus develops first in the embryo, before the mouth does, it makes me wonder how they knew it was a deuterostome (“mouth second”).

You have to be pretty careless to lose your asshole.

And the award for sober, meaningful scientific statement that’s really easy to take out of context goes to…

Oh right … that is a hole in the ground … sorry …

The poor fossil – just discovered and already the butt of jokes.

I hear she was a great dancer.

Well, I think she’s quite lovely. She has a nice pattern.

This might explain tattoos and face painting.

:slight_smile:

I think I dated that guy.

*There was an episode of "ER’ where Mekhi Phifer commented on Scott Grimes’ incompetence “He couldn’t find his ass with both hands.”

Interestingly, a variation was used in a **medical movie many years earlier. The line went something like "He couldn’t find his butt with both hands and a flashlight.’

*The actors’ names. Don’t recall their character names, and don’t feel like looking it up.

**It was either “The Young Doctors” (1961), “The Interns” (1962), or “The New Interns” (1964). They were running back to back on TCM, and I don’t recall w hich one.

One of her direct descendants taught in my elementary school. Second grade if I remember right. :wink:

Crap. That was the question I was going to ask you–after I looked up what a deuterostome was.

Well, by appearance, I’d say it’s an ancestor of Andrew Zimmern anyway.