Posted on 04/01/2025 8:05:00 AM PDT by dayglored
If the genes of a tiny, bumless invertebrate are anything to go by, our anuses might be repurposed sperm chutes.
A new study suggests instead of releasing waste, the first anal orifice was an exit hatch for male sex cells which was given a new task.
Researchers from the University of Bergen in Norway investigated the genetics of xenacoelomorphs; distant relatives of flatworms that have a cul-de-sac for a gut. Despite this lack of a dedicated poop-hole, xenacoelomorphs use some of the same genes we use to turn our digestive system into a tube, only to create a genital opening known as a gonadopore instead.
"Once a hole is there, you can use it for other things," zoologist Andreas Hejnol told Michael Le Page at New Scientist.
Animal anuses exist in an unexpected variety of forms, from myriad waste-releasing pores on flatworm backs to jellyfish that don't bother with a dedicated channel for rubbish at all.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
April fools!
April 1.
Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder.
“”Once a hole is there, you can use it for other things,” zoologist Andreas Hejnol told Michael Le Page at New Scientist”
How did the hole get there in the first place? These people are desperate and shallow.
I know a lot of leftist who talk out theirs.
Thanks for this link. I’ve been a PFS victim for 5 years now, with all the symptoms you wrote of.
At nearly 70, I have no hope for a fix in my lifetime. Merck ignores us. All in the remedy for BPH.
The number of men afflicted after taking Propecia is even greater, 100x fold. Maybe RFK Jr. will help us.
Thank you, now I can stop typing.
Today is April 1.
I think I should not read any more posts until tomorrow.
Just in case.
LOL...Cornholio!
Never fails to get a laugh out of me!
Pete Buttigieg.
If oviducts connect to a cloaca, so would have sperm ducts at some point, especially for aquatic animals.
To reverse Prof. Hejnol, holes can separate and specialize over time. We are basically tubes, but we are complicated tubes.
Got a nurse joke for you.
Guy goes to the hospital and complains to the doctor that he is experiencing a tremendous amount of pain in his butt area.
The doctor asks him to be specific as to the source of the pain.
The guys points to his anus and says
“Here, at the entrance!”
The nurse just smiled and said
I think I see what your problem is”.
You, and me, and all of us who pay taxes.
So it’s not just to vote Democrat, who knew?
WHY on God’s green earth is money being wasted on garbage like this?????????
Monkey pox update.
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