Majestic, delicious creatures roamed North America in peace ... until the Native Americans came
Posted on 07/15/2014 1:27:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The primitive folk assessed by many archaeologists as being the original native Americans – that is, the Clovis people – killed and ate the lovable prehistoric elephants that inhabited the continent alongside them, scientists say.
The proto-dumbo species in question is known as the gomphothere. Until recently, it had been thought that gomphotheres had disappeared from North America well before human beings showed up, but new fossil evidence appears to show that at least one cuddly tusker was brutally killed by Clovis people around 13,400 years ago. The luckless pachyderm was then scoffed by its peckish assailants.
"This is the first Clovis gomphothere, it's the first archaeological gomphothere found in North America ... it adds another item to the Clovis menu," says archaeologist Vance Holliday, who took part in the dig which unearthed the fossilised proto-'phant.
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Those barbaric prehistoric Native Americans, killing all of those innocent creatures. Why didn’t they just go to the local Pick and Pay to buy their groceries?
(sarcasm)
And THIS is why there are no flying elephants anymore.
We’re gonna need a bigger smoker...
Tastes like pork roast.
Makes good gravy too.
And I bet the babies had big brown eyes and blinked lovingly up at their mothers.
Please keep Disney away from paleontology. They were meat. Big meat that was hard to kill with bows and spears and I wouldn't be surprised that they stomped and speared quite a few Indians who tried to hunt them.
They must have eaten all the flying pigs too.
Build a 2-story one out of brick and preheat/preseason for about 2 days.
How long do you reckon an elephant would take?
My question is: If the elephants led people lives before the Native Americans arrived — why are the Native Americans called “Native Americans?”
The mammoths usually won.
It beats humpback whale .. And a lot easier to catch.
Native-Americans is a misnomer - there was no America at that time. America was nothing but a bunch of dirt below another hunk of dirt and above another hunk of dirt.
“They must have eaten all the flying pigs too. “
Nope, the flying pigs natural predator was the Unicorn. Unicorns wiped them all out.
One bite at a time.
Their prototype was built out of dung and the roast tasted crappy, setting back BBQ for thousands of years.
Missionary in Africa comes across a pygmy standing atop a dead elephant.
“What happened to that elephant?
“I killed it with my club.”
“That’s amazing. How big is your club?”
“Oh, we have about 20 members.”
So much for the “living-in-harmony-with-Mother-Gaia” con.
Yum!
LOL!!!!
and I would not doubt it if those with four feet were pushing for spear and club registration and control. They prob wanted to register rocks because they were used in slings as missiles....
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