# Say hello to your little ancestor! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 30, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-hello-to-your-little-ancestor/778601 "2017-01-30T19:10:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-hello-to-your-little-ancestor/778601/1 "2017-01-30T19:10:33Z")
[A new fossil discovery](https://phys.org/news/2017-01-bag-like-sea-creature-humans-oldest.html) 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. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-hello-to-your-little-ancestor/778601/2 "2017-01-30T20:38:28Z")
“Goodness, great-great-great…great-great-great-grandma! What a big mouth you have!” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-hello-to-your-little-ancestor/778601/3 "2017-01-30T21:02:45Z")
From the article > [@](#): > > …the researchers were unable to find any evidence that the animal had an anus. Your joke goes here: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-hello-to-your-little-ancestor/778601/4 "2017-01-30T22:49:59Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-hello-to-your-little-ancestor/778601/5 "2017-01-31T01:25:13Z")
> [@](#): > > 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… ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-hello-to-your-little-ancestor/778601/6 "2017-01-31T01:30:36Z")
Oh right … that is a hole in the ground … sorry … ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-hello-to-your-little-ancestor/778601/7 "2017-01-31T01:46:13Z")
The poor fossil – just discovered and already the butt of jokes. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-hello-to-your-little-ancestor/778601/8 "2017-01-31T01:56:52Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > As for their looks–well, let’s just hope that they had a good personality. I hear she was a great dancer. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-hello-to-your-little-ancestor/778601/9 "2017-01-31T02:14:46Z")
Well, I think she’s quite lovely. She has a nice pattern. This might explain tattoos and face painting. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-hello-to-your-little-ancestor/778601/10 "2017-01-31T02:22:19Z")
I think I dated that guy. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-hello-to-your-little-ancestor/778601/11 "2017-01-31T03:43:42Z")
\*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. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-hello-to-your-little-ancestor/778601/12 "2017-01-31T06:08:04Z")
One of her direct descendants taught in my elementary school. Second grade if I remember right. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-hello-to-your-little-ancestor/778601/13 "2017-01-31T06:17:31Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > 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. Crap. That was the question I was going to ask you–after I looked up what a deuterostome was. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-hello-to-your-little-ancestor/778601/14 "2017-01-31T11:36:15Z")
Well, by appearance, I’d say it’s an ancestor of Andrew Zimmern anyway.