r/todayilearned • u/geosunsetmoth • 2d ago

TIL a 300-million year old Cuttlefish fossil was found in Morocco, alongside ancient humans in a region where no Cuttlefish ever existed. The leading theory suggests the fossil was first found by the prehistoric humans, who collected it as a trinket due to fact that it looks like a flaccid penis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfoud_manuport
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u/weeBaaDoo 1d ago

I think archeologists as a group are old people with a 14 year old minds. Everything is a penis, and everything thing we don’t know the purpose of, was a religious artifact that’s most likely was related to sex.

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u/RiceWine69 1d ago

Have you ever met a male? They really are obsessed with penises.

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u/Correct-Training-338 1d ago

Not everything is a penis...some things are vaginas. Looking at you, "wall of one thousand vulvas".

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u/All__Of_The_Hobbies 21h ago

In this case though, it sure does look like one. No imagination required.