Screenshot of a Bluesky post of a fossilized cuttlefish that looks like a dickhead and part of a shaft. The scientist claims it was carried around by prehistoric humans 250,000 years ago and we don’t know why, but they will talk about why in an episode of the podcast The Fossil Files

  • Kate-ayOP
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    426 days ago

    Perhaps it was discovered in a midden? Your hypothesis would explain why it’s broken along the uh, shaft. Guess we’ll have to tune in to find out!

    • @[email protected]
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      326 days ago

      He said it was a fragment of a fossil cuttlefish so I was assuming there was more to this that was um… being used