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Scientists studying the evolution of common sea creatures whose ancestors date back nearly half a billion years have discovered what must be the oldest animal fossil whose gender is unequivocally male.

An animal's soft body parts hardly ever remain apparent as the organs fossilize and are gradually replaced by stone. But in the case of the 425 million-year-old crustacean, only two-tenths of an inch long, the scientists were able to clearly discern a penis.

"The copulatory organ is large and stout," said the team of scientists, led by David J. Siveter of the University of Leicester in England, in their report today in the journal Science. "The prominent copulatory appendage indicates that the specimen is a sexually mature adult male."

The scientists have named their fossil species Colymbosathon ecplecticos, which means "swimmer with an astoundingly large penis."

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Wonderaz is the less unequivocally male and slightly less old fossil 'desertwalker with vestigial penis'.

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Obvious jokes are often the best, I find.

Dreamengineer, did you see what I did in my first post there? I made a small joke about a forum member who is old (thus, like a fossil) and drew the comparison with the creature that BnB talks about, but said that wonderaz has a small penis instead of an astoundingly large one (it must come as sad news to you, but small penises are often the subject of derision. Sorry to be the one to tell you, but your girlfriend, dacarlo, has been telling everyone else, anyhow)(did you see again there, the reference to a previous post?).

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SMUGJOKES ARE AN ABOMINATION IN THE EYES OF THE LORD!

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But it feels so good, how can it be wrong?

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Smug Git is my hero.

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Hah. Smug, I read the title and immediately thought of the same thing...

Ironically, the name Colymbosathon Ecplecticos is also used to describe people such as RiZZ...

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