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…
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540 million years ago, our ancestors were ugly blobs that shat through their mouths. Isn’t it amazing the way everything comes full-circle?
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Meet Saccorhytus, bloblike human ancestor that shat through its mouth
Oh, I had an Uncle like that.
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Hey, researchers haven’t found my anus yet either, and I’m not about to let them try.
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Meet Cartorhytus, another bloblike human ancester
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Here is the actual fossil. I hate it when they don’t how the actual fossil.
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I know it’s just pareidolia, but that really looks like a face.
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I don’t think that’s pareidolia. I think that is the creature’s face.
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That’s Press Secretary Saccorhytus to you, mister!
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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.
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What a time to be alive. To think that we’ve found Piers Morgan’s earliest ancestor.
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“Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.” – Confucius
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Trumpfaciem.
Genus: culus.
Here’s Terry Gilliam’s reconstruction of an organism from just the finger tip:
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I have a sneaking suspicion they know where it is, though. 
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