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Wild New Study Suggests Buttholes Once Had a Very Different Purpose
Science Alert ^ | Apr 1, 2025 | Tessa Koumoundouros

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 ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: amazingstudy; butthole; buttholescience; godsgravesglyphs; grantcanceled; helixmakemineadouble; moneywellspent; paleontology; pullmyfinger; science; xenacoelomorph
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To: dayglored

How does this crap even get funded?


41 posted on 04/01/2025 9:27:00 AM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: dayglored

Those grants need to be cancelled right away.


42 posted on 04/01/2025 9:32:51 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: TangoLimaSierra

“Pete Buttigieg.”

Hilarious... :)


43 posted on 04/01/2025 9:34:55 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Colorado Doug
Every April 1st a special committee pulls the money out of their sphinxster...


44 posted on 04/01/2025 9:37:12 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: redfreedom

I wonder who paid for this?

xxxxxxxxxxxxx

you did via USAID & NGOs


45 posted on 04/01/2025 9:38:42 AM PDT by thinden (Buckle up …..)
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To: dayglored

“We’re not homosexuals...just originalists!”


46 posted on 04/01/2025 9:41:24 AM PDT by CodeToad ( )
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To: dayglored

“A new $tudy sugge$t$”

The re$ult of mo$t Studie$ i$ “More $tudieS needed”.


47 posted on 04/01/2025 9:50:40 AM PDT by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: dayglored

How did USAID miss out on dumping billions of washable dough into this highly relevant study?


48 posted on 04/01/2025 9:51:16 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: dayglored

Who paid for this?


49 posted on 04/01/2025 9:55:16 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: WKTimpco

Well-argued. Thanks.


50 posted on 04/01/2025 9:57:21 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“…all who were appointed for eternal life believed.” Acts 13:48)
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To: dayglored

Is this an April Fool’s post?


51 posted on 04/01/2025 9:58:17 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: dayglored

Many Dem and RINO congressmen keep their heads in there.


52 posted on 04/01/2025 10:30:34 AM PDT by steve8714 (Latin Mass is beautiful. Even though the music wasn't written by pedo Jesuits.)
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To: DannyTN

So, clearly the act known as ‘the blumpkin’ came about after a couple billion years of evolution, and man’s creation of the toilet.


53 posted on 04/01/2025 11:33:49 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: dayglored

Good thing man is not a descendant of animals, but a separate creature made in the express image of God. Like God, we are triune, consisting of body, soul and spirit. Our soul is our mind and emotions and our spirit is the part of us that communes with God. Animals may have souls, but they do not have spirits. We are unique in the biological system.


54 posted on 04/01/2025 11:42:55 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: dayglored

“Once a hole is there, you can use it for other things,” zoologist Andreas Hejnol told Michael Le Page at New Scientist.” But, no pun intended, what about hermaphrodites?


55 posted on 04/01/2025 11:55:06 AM PDT by kawhill (Gotta have an opinion. Gotta have a voice. Oh yeah? Who's going to hear it out there?)
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To: dayglored

This challenges the standard model of a common line of descent for our species. This is a highly plausible for the descent of liberals, but it’s a real stretch for the rest of us.


56 posted on 04/01/2025 12:00:13 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: dayglored

57 posted on 04/01/2025 12:04:19 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: dayglored

I haven’t read the article, but this is my favorite headline of the day.

So far, anyway.


58 posted on 04/01/2025 12:06:57 PM PDT by Allegra (🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈)
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To: dayglored

“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.“

Do these idiots ever listen to themselves? EVER!?


59 posted on 04/01/2025 12:12:41 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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To: dayglored

for democrats, it used to be their mouth


60 posted on 04/01/2025 12:33:05 PM PDT by oil_dude
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