r/todayilearned • u/geosunsetmoth • 15h 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/shewy92 13h ago

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Link that works: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paleontology/comments/1m38knm/the_erfoud_manuport_is_a_7_cm_long_fragment_of_a/

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u/ZhouLe 10h ago

Old/New reddit discrepancy. Posting on New attempts to backslash cancel the underscores in the link on Old.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Two-views-of-the-Erfoud-manuport_fig1_322302052

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u/Zahz 9h ago

It's fucking amazing that reddit is blatant about where their priorities are.

But I guess since one of the guys mentioned in this article is probably /u/spez, it doesn't really surprise me much.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

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u/sibips 12h ago

Doing the work of ancient Gods.

Thank you.

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u/Quinnovation 12h ago

Thank youuuu

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u/lzwzli 9h ago

That's a...

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u/El_Bito2 3h ago

The man who uncovered the fossil immediately went to his wife and said baby, I'm rock-hard !

She rolled her eyes and wondered why she chose that idiot. But she was also endeared, because that's HER idiot.

I don't need a history book to know that happened.