Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/01/30/meet-saccorhytus-bloblike-hum.html
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Add some fucked up comb-over and it’s a dead ringer. OK well yeah of course it’s dead but…
540 million years ago, our ancestors were ugly blobs that shat through their mouths. Isn’t it amazing the way everything comes full-circle?
Meet Saccorhytus, bloblike human ancestor that shat through its mouth
Oh, I had an Uncle like that.
Hey, researchers haven’t found my anus yet either, and I’m not about to let them try.
Meet Cartorhytus, another bloblike human ancester
I know it’s just pareidolia, but that really looks like a face.
I don’t think that’s pareidolia. I think that is the creature’s face.
That’s Press Secretary Saccorhytus to you, mister!
Why does it look like it has a face?
It is a face - sorta. It has a mouth. Though the article said those things that look like eyes aren’t eyes, they aren’t sure what they are, possibly proto-gill slits.
What a time to be alive. To think that we’ve found Piers Morgan’s earliest ancestor.
“Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.” – Confucius
Trumpfaciem.
Genus: culus.
Here’s Terry Gilliam’s reconstruction of an organism from just the finger tip:
I have a sneaking suspicion they know where it is, though.