They say that, like opinions, everyone has one of these. But anuses are rare in the fossil record. Anuses generally do not survive the ravages of time. But, the New York Post reports, paleontologists found a fossilized anus dating back 300 million years.
They found the anus in a Thuringian Forest in Germany. It belonged to a reptile and was, properly speaking, a cloaca--a multipurpose orifice that, unlike your anus, can be used for urinating, laying eggs, and mating as well as defecating.
The reptile was about 3.5 inches long and has been named by scientists Cabarzichnus pulchrus. I'm not sure what Cabarzichnus means, but pulchrus means "beautiful." And it is lovely, don't you think?
-via Jarvis Best | Photo: Lorenzo Marchetti/Natural History Museum
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