This is the best out-of-context headline I've read all month.
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Thank you for not making me the only person to have immediately gone “there” with that title.
Those myocene apes were kinky.
Pairs well with the thumbnail
I had to do a triple take to check it it was the Onion Not the Onion or 196... This is some truly crazy shit.
The Nature article in case you want to skip the pop science and get to the good stuff.
Because Hoxd gene regulation in the mouse urogenital sinus relies on enhancers located in this same chromatin domain that controls digit development, we propose that the current regulatory landscape active in distal limbs was co-opted as a whole in tetrapods from a pre-existing cloacal regulatory machinery.
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This post should be hanging in MOMA
What a coincidence, a fish butthole is why I don't have fingers anymore.
Oh wow, a toe-typer in the wild!
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That would be quite the articulate shlong.
This will be a good addition to my "I am so fun at partys"-facts.
How many parties do you get invited to?
Zero. Cause I'm old. But at least I can talk to the other parents on kids birthday partys.
Well you could until you added this fact. Now you’ll be the “fish-butthole-finger” guy.
I would feel awful finding out I genetically modified a fish to not have a butthole.
That’s fucked up.
All fun and games until you "I have no butthole and I must poop" some fish
That's a brand new sentence right there
Wait, so am I supposed to finger fish?
Is this why Kanye likes fish sticks?
Its the reason you have fingers
I was born to finger fish!
yes. you aren't already??
Ohh yeah, I was just making sure I was doing it right.
I love how so much science ultimately boils down to putting creatures in a giant magnet and seeing what lights up.
So when I was eating fish fingers as a kid in the uk, what was I really eating???!
So holding hands is obscene!
And here I thought me sticking my fingers up fish buttholes was the reason they existed.
I always knew that was my purpose
That sounds like something AI would say
I'm looking at my fingertips .... realizing that they could have become something else.
Talk about a missed opportunity. You could have had ten fish buttholes within reach at all times!
Some people, in fact, still have hands growing out of their ass
I wonder if opinions are also regulated by the same gene.
Mmmmm, butterfingers are my fave.
Is that how they're made?
Fish fingers and custard!
me walking in with 10 fish on my hands
"OMG you're not gonna beleive this..."
I goatsee what you did there.
Buttfingerer
HIGH FIVE!
It's why I have fingers... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 🐠