Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old.

A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to paleontologists.

The fossils unearthed by the African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience feature a tracksite and apparent butt-dragging impression believed to have been made by a rock hyrax, a stout rodent-like mammal that resembles a prairie dog or gopher with a set of vampiric teeth, according to a new report in ScienceAlert . 4

The bulbous animals, commonly known as dassies, survived the Ice Age and currently live in rocky terrain in parts of Africa.

To this day, hyraxes drag their butt along on the ground similarly to dogs stricken with a parasitic infection. It’s unclear what causes the

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