Afarensis is a 3.5-2.8 million year old hominin from the Kada Hadar member of the Hadar formation in the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. He is approximately 41 inches tall, weighs approximately 60 pounds and has a cranial capacity of a whopping 410 cc (approximately). Afarensis is currently considered to be transitional between apes and humans and displays some traits of both. Since he spends a lot of time on the couch watching monster movies, some observers question whether he is an obligate biped (although no one has observed him climbing a tree). He also has a blog called 
I couldn't believe my eyes! In an otherwise interesting article on Science News Daily the following statement occurs:
Who would have thought that the secrets to long life might exist in the naked, wrinkled body of one of the world's ugliest animals?
This is just cruel slander. I mean look at this face:
Isn't that just the cutest face ever! I don't see how any could call it ugly, much less one of the world's ugliest animals. Science News Daily, naked mole rats await your apology. In the meantime I have no choice but to put you on "Notice"
(Note: Rudolf Raff is on notice because of previous slanderous comments about naked mole rats, leopards are on there because they have been known to bite australopithicines in the head).
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Ah, I feel we have just been told more about the structure of the A. afarensis face than any of us really wanted to know.
And what did Barbra Streisand do to the naked mole rat?
Bob
Posted by: Bob O'H | October 8, 2007 2:51 PM
Bob wrote:
"we have just been told more about the structure of the A. afarensis face than any of us really wanted to know."
Yes. It looks much more human-like than I'd imagined. Still strikingly different of course!
Posted by: terryt | October 8, 2007 4:52 PM
To be clear everything after "Leopards" is Colbert's. I kept deleting it but it kept popping back up.
If y'all had a face that looked like that you would be overwhelmed by hoards of nubile, scantily clad women. I mean it is just the cutest face ever!
Posted by: afarensis, FCD | October 8, 2007 7:08 PM
That was a terrible thing to say about the poster animal for Scandinavia.
Posted by: Tegumai Bopsulai, FCD | October 8, 2007 8:40 PM
That is an ugly face. A face so ugly it's cute. :)
Posted by: Alan Kellogg | October 8, 2007 9:37 PM
But --- but --- Naked mole rats remind me of miniature walruses!
Anne G
Posted by: Anne Gilbert | October 9, 2007 2:08 PM
Tegumai - have you ever looked at Fennoscandia on a Euro?
Bob
Posted by: Bob O'H | October 11, 2007 2:32 PM
A friend of mine commented, "How would you like to go through life, looking like a penis with teeth?"
Try as I might, I just cannot shake that image...
-- CV
Posted by: CortxVortx | October 13, 2007 11:46 AM
Well if you ask me i think they are so ugly they are cute and i dont think that it looks like a penis with out teeth, even tho it is kinda funny\. we have a mole day at our school and we have to make one i think me and my partner is going to do oo mole 7 moles are forever. haha really cute hu? ....
Posted by: Kayla Ubank | October 22, 2007 10:15 AM