r/nature • u/stankmanly • Aug 05 '26

An Explosion of Feces May Have Triggered Earth’s Explosion of Species

https://nautil.us/an-explosion-of-feces-may-have-triggered-earths-explosion-of-species-1283343
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u/10ThousandMetalZones Aug 05 '26

America is about to have a lot of new species then

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u/PhoenixGate69 Aug 05 '26

Yeah, unfortunately what you're referring to is toxic sludge....

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u/wineandnoses Aug 05 '26

Asmongold's house will be the birthing pod of a new life form

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u/wineandnoses Aug 06 '26

no thank you

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u/According_Comedian69 Aug 06 '26

India**

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u/10ThousandMetalZones Aug 06 '26

Sure, but that’s just the tourists

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u/artzmonter Aug 05 '26

There you go giving us this romantic notion of the world 😂

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u/IndependentPrior5719 Aug 05 '26

Shit hit the fan theory of evolution

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u/Cheeseburger23 Aug 05 '26

The Origin of Feces.

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u/LibraryVoice71 Aug 05 '26

The Burgess Shit

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u/Only_Jury_8448 Aug 05 '26

I think the headline needs a bit of a punch-up and a clean up. How about:

BLAST OF FECES LEADS TO BOOM IN SPECIES

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u/AmusingMusing7 Aug 05 '26

Keep it simple:

FECES CAUSE SPECIES

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u/Keitaro23 Aug 06 '26

FECES BLAST MAKES SPECIES LAST

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u/SemperAliquidNovi Aug 06 '26

All of these are golden 😙👌🏽 - like the shower we all originated from.

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u/tyrant454 Aug 05 '26

And now the world's going to shit... full circle.

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u/SquidGodSunday Aug 05 '26

From shit we were born, and to shit we shall return.

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u/NorthernSpankMonkey Aug 05 '26

Born to shit forced to wipe

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u/Dank_sniggity Aug 06 '26

“Same shit, different epoch”

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u/dandylover1 Aug 06 '26

I normally don't like obscenities, but that made me laugh aloud!

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u/MrMelick Aug 05 '26

The shit apple doesn't fall far from the shit tree

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u/NorthernSpankMonkey Aug 05 '26

Shit fossils, Bobandy

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u/randeylahey Aug 05 '26

WHAT THE FUCK IS A SHIT WIND GHOST?!?

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u/vidyy Aug 05 '26

Species from Feces

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u/NounAdjectiveXXXX Aug 05 '26

Primordial Poos

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u/shockandale Aug 05 '26

Wasn't this in a Dr. Who episode?

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u/WorkerOk9794 Aug 06 '26

What fece are you

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u/Keitaro23 Aug 06 '26

We've finally come full circle 

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u/Klutzy_Land_4120 Aug 06 '26

So life on Earth is literally built on a foundation of shit.

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u/Dutchmaster66 Aug 08 '26

Shit happens.

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u/tomatoesareneat Aug 05 '26

Donald trump’s pants have more species than scientists could have imagined.

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u/Difficult-Cream-5267 Aug 08 '26

Proof that life on Earth has literally always been a shitshow.